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Old 03-01-2009, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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I remember my first viral video. The year was 2001, and I was a fresh-faced teenager with my first high-speed Internet connection.

The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits - TIME
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Old 03-03-2009, 10:50 AM
 
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I just decided that when I see "Time" as the source for an online article, I'll no longer bother to check it out. Even with satellite connection and an anti-ad host file, the articles are so user unfriendly as to be useless. This one lists the videos in text format without further explanation - like I'm going to spend 3 hours watching videos just to try to understand the author's point? I think not.

The story linked to another one of 50 top websites of 2008. I thought "OK, I'll browse that list." Impossible, they had the list broken up into 51 individual pages. After the first three, two of which were fashion related, I clicked off - never to return.

I have seen a bunch of poor websites, and some idiotic design, but Time has consistently formatted everything that it can to increase ad revenue at the time expense of the viewer. To the web creators at Time - I hope you rot in He11 having to view your own product for eternity, never getting to the meat of the article. Jerks. Real Jerks.
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