"Back in the Day," I think the internet was easier to simply bumble around, discovering things. People built ugly pages just jam packed with information about obscure things, just for the sake of bestowing their knowledge upon the world wide web. One found these pages via search engine, or links from said interesting page, to another interesting page. While the awful flashing gifs and such were hard on the eyes, (and the aesthetic sensibilities), it seems as though it was easier then to stumble onto new things. Nowadays, (insert old lady voice), one searches, but gets redirected to commercial sites, linked to ads, and barraged with cookie requests more often than one finds something truly new and interesting. And git off muh virtual lawn!
In order to reacquaint myself with the internet of old, I stuck the StumbleUpon toolbar into my browser. It's not one of those awful and intrusive "Find a deal!" toolbars that I so detest. You specify what types of pages you're interested in "stumbling upon," and a click of the button sends you to a random site fitting those specifications. You're able to give a thumbs up or down to the page you reach, making it more likely that StumbleUpon will send you someplace you're interested in being. You're also able to submit a new page, if you so desire, by simply giving it a thumbs up or down and filling out the subsequent little form describing what it is.
The only thing that annoys me about it is that it asks to set cookies for the next page in line before you actually see the page you're stumbling to.
Anyway, the point of this post is that I recently found a neat site that could be an interesting resource: A page full of sounds. Ever wonder what a pheasant sounds like? Or curious about what a sounds Geiger counter makes? This is your page. Neat stuff.
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