Through Usenet I brought this to the attention of other like-minded sorts who experience pleasure through the ridicule of others, who deluged me with pointers to ever more useless creations.Īnd so the Useless Pages were born, christened with approximately the following text, inaccurately preserved for posterity (it is uncertain just how much this has mutated from its original form.) Its utility was nil, its style banal, its content embarrassing, its unintentional humor value high. Sometime in 1994 (yes, Virginia, there WAS a web back then) I encountered “ Kenny Z’s CD list” during a late night search session.
(Unlike most of the Useless Pages, I’s in this text refer to Paul Phillips, not Steve Berlin. What you will read in the next lines, is an article written by Paul Phillips in 1996! This is a work in progress, you can expect changes as soon as I get my hands on new material about the useless pages.
You are going to witness the birth of The Useless Web, the real and original one, not our contemporary one. Big as in Colossal, something like the Big Bang of pointless, useless websites. In search for new useless websites to offer our visitor we came upon something really big.
A Brief History of Uselessness on the web