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t120
November 12th, 2011, 06:14 PM
If you could only access one website on the entire Information Superhighway, which would it be, and why?

For my one site, I am going to nominate the Internet Archive (Archive.org (http://www.archive.org/index.php)), mainly because of all the wonderful content in the Prelinger Archives and the Netlabels collection.

Rubykuby
November 12th, 2011, 06:17 PM
google.co.uk

Lucradia
November 12th, 2011, 06:20 PM
If you, yourself could only access one website, then the web archive would not be helpful. The web archive can only archive the following:

1. Pages that don't have spiders.txt (Which hosts still use)

2. If your website is all flash (A lot of guild websites for MMORPGs, and "easy-to-make" websites are turning to these.) (See number 4)

3. The website should be at most, HTML4 (unless the crawler was finally updated to archive HTML5), no DHTML can be archived if the JS file needed isn't.

4. Downloadable files like MIDIs and MP3s, etc. will only be archived based on the statistics of them, and if they are downloaded a lot. (If the file is embedded, like with flash, there's more chance the flash file will be saved.)

It takes a lot of computation and idle-ness for the crawler to actually archive any single page, as it has to do a ton of checks. As for what website I'd prefer: the booru network. (As in: the entire *booru database)

t120
November 12th, 2011, 07:57 PM
If you, yourself could only access one website, then the web archive would not be helpful

I'm not as interested in the web archive as I am in things like the Netlabels section.

jonkiribati
November 12th, 2011, 07:57 PM
Google.com

shymega
November 12th, 2011, 08:46 PM
I would access:

ubuntuforums.org

Because there is so much to read...

Legendary_Bibo
November 12th, 2011, 08:57 PM
A website that let me play Skyrim in a browser if one existed.

West201
November 12th, 2011, 10:02 PM
ymail.com for e-mail & chat :p

Copper Bezel
November 12th, 2011, 11:52 PM
I almost thought it was a toss-up between Gmail and Wikipedia for a second, but then I realized I could just write letters. = )

urukrama
November 13th, 2011, 12:06 AM
I almost thought it was a toss-up between Gmail and Wikipedia for a second, but then I realized I could just write letters. = )

You could also just go to a library ;)

undecim
November 13th, 2011, 12:30 AM
wikipedia

Gremlinzzz
November 13th, 2011, 01:06 AM
Mufon:popcorn:
so ill know when they get here:popcorn:
http://www.mufon.com/
:popcorn:

MG&TL
November 13th, 2011, 01:10 AM
probably launchpad.net, so I can help when I'm feeling positive, and laugh when I'm feeling negative.

kvvv
November 13th, 2011, 01:21 AM
Wikipedia.org

Ultra Cronic
November 13th, 2011, 01:40 AM
I gotcha all!!!!
Google.com
From there you can go anywhere.

73ckn797
November 13th, 2011, 01:44 AM
I gotcha all!!!!
Google.com
From there you can go anywhere.
This ^

forrestcupp
November 13th, 2011, 04:04 AM
Google is not a good answer. If you really can only go to one site, then Google would be worthless other than to see a bunch of one or two line descriptions of a bunch of sites you can't access.

As much as I hate to admit it, probably Facebook so I could keep in contact with people.

Wikipedia would be a close 2nd.

SoFl W
November 13th, 2011, 04:18 AM
http://cheezburger.com/

If I can only go one place, I should at least laugh.

LinuxFan999
November 13th, 2011, 04:19 AM
Either ubuntuforums.org or linux.com.

TeamRocket1233c
November 13th, 2011, 04:35 AM
Either deviantART.com, iScribble.net, or Facebook.com

angry_johnnie
November 14th, 2011, 02:27 AM
9gag

:p fun before everything else!

Copper Bezel
November 14th, 2011, 03:31 AM
I almost thought it was a toss-up between Gmail and Wikipedia for a second, but then I realized I could just write letters. = )

You could also just go to a library ;)
Yeah, but in the bibliographies and such, the links to related books are always broken, so that I have to fetch the resources manually. = )

ubuntu27
November 14th, 2011, 03:40 AM
Cutting Edge (http://cuttingedge.org/) -- For current events.:-$

josephellengar
November 14th, 2011, 04:26 AM
Google is not a good answer. If you really can only go to one site, then Google would be worthless other than to see a bunch of one or two line descriptions of a bunch of sites you can't access.

As much as I hate to admit it, probably Facebook so I could keep in contact with people.

Wikipedia would be a close 2nd.

Use the Google cache of the other pages. You're still on Google. Actually, why don't you just use a proxy and say that you're always on the proxy webpage :lolflag:

sandyd
November 14th, 2011, 04:29 AM
Easy.
Ill just setup a proxy server on my own website and off I go!

Dr. C
November 14th, 2011, 05:09 AM
http://www.wikipedia.org/

collinp
November 14th, 2011, 06:28 AM
Probably Facebook.com, because sadly enough, I spend enough time on there where it's become one of the few tabs in my browser that never gets closed. It's one of the easy ways to keep in touch with my friends. Calling isn't always viable due to location of both parties.

radkins2
November 14th, 2011, 07:16 AM
I probably shouldn't say....lol

ubuntu27
November 14th, 2011, 07:41 AM
I probably shouldn't say....lol

I know! THIS IS IT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5z5U_xd8EU)

Copper Bezel
November 14th, 2011, 08:04 AM
Have you ever been disappointed not to be rickrolled? Because I was, just now. = )

Christian Knudsen
November 14th, 2011, 04:27 PM
I want to say Wikipedia, but if I have to be completely honest, probably YouTube... :oops:

ubupirate
November 14th, 2011, 04:36 PM
google.com

forrestcupp
November 14th, 2011, 07:08 PM
I want to say Wikipedia, but if I have to be completely honest, probably YouTube... :oops:

I didn't even think of that. That would be a good choice.

BrokenKingpin
November 14th, 2011, 07:31 PM
Wikipedia I suppose. There are other sites I like more, as they provide more entertainment, but if I could only have one site it would be Wikipedia as it would be the most useful.