So I misspelled 'anandtech'....

[qazwsxokmijn]

As the thread title suggested, I misspelled Anand's name and wrote 'Anad' in forums.anandtech.com and wrote forums.anadtech.com instead. Look at where the latter URL takes you.....

And a MASSIVE LOL at this quote:
"THERE ARE APP.(ROXIMATELY) 10,285 PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE AND EVERY ONE UP TO THIS TIME HAS COME TRUE WITHOUT ONE SINGLE EXCEPTION"

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

10,285 prophecies in the bible?! Every one up to present day has come true with no exceptions!?!? WE'RE DOOMED. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Classy.

 

[sandorski]

Every one has become True? hmm, interesting.

 

[Blackjack200]

I did this once as well, pretty funny.

BTW, what are those weird pages you often get when you misspell a common website. You usually get them if you misspell by one letter, and it's a list of links that are kind of related to the page you were trying to get to.

...and of course I can't find an example of one.

 

[Nik]

welcome to 2000

 

[BigFatCow]

I did this once as well, pretty funny.

BTW, what are those weird pages you often get when you misspell a common website. You usually get them if you misspell by one letter, and it's a list of links that are kind of related to the page you were trying to get to.

...and of course I can't find an example of one.

like these?

http://goooooogle.com/

 

[chusteczka]

It is not that difficult to provide a link to the site you are talking about.

http://forums.anadtech.com/

 

[Blackjack200]

like these?

http://goooooogle.com/

Yeah, what the heck are those? Usually they'll have some generic graphics too and there's always that "related links" part. Do they just exist to make money by clickthroughs? Is there a single company that owns them all?

 

[911paramedic]

whitehouse.com used to be a porn site, I made that mistake once.

 

[sandorski]

whitehouse.com used to be a porn site, I made that mistake once.

hehe, yup. Seemed appropriate back in the Clinton days though.

 

[coldmeat]

Who types addresses in the address bar manually anymore?

 

[Blackjack200]

Who types addresses in the address bar manually anymore?

It's the fastest way to navigate. click in the address bar and put in the first few letters of the URL, press the down arrow to select the autocomplete and hit enter. It takes me less than a second to point my browser to a common website.

What do you do? Browse through favorite folders?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

It's the fastest way to navigate. click in the address bar and put in the first few letters of the URL, press the down arrow to select the autocomplete and hit enter. It takes me less than a second to point my browser to a common website.

Click? Ctrl-L, newbie 🙂

 

[Ika]

Who types addresses in the address bar manually anymore?

Uh, I do.

except I cheat and type "for", then hit down and enter because forums.anandtech.com is the first entry. same with all of my other commonly visited sites.

 

[Blackjack200]

Click? Ctrl-L, newbie 🙂

aha! This I did not know. 😀

I'm actually shocked at the number of people that don't know you can copy and paste with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. I must tell people this trick once or twice a month.

 

[zinfamous]

Click? Ctrl-L, newbie 🙂

Uh, I do.

except I cheat and type "for", then hit down and enter because forums.anandtech.com is the first entry. same with all of my other commonly visited sites.

I still utilize the bookmark function.

Am I some sort of Neanderthal?

:hmm:

 

[coldmeat]

It's the fastest way to navigate. click in the address bar and put in the first few letters of the URL, press the down arrow to select the autocomplete and hit enter. It takes me less than a second to point my browser to a common website.

What do you do? Browse through favorite folders?

Bookmark toolbar, or google search

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I still utilize the bookmark function.

Am I some sort of Neanderthal?

:hmm:

I switch back and forth. Chrome's autocomplete is much, much nicer than the "awesome" bar in Firefox and saves a lot of time. I'm far more efficient on the keyboard than mouse.

Workflow when starting my browsing:
Windows Key + 3 (open browser, 3rd item on taskbar)
'fo' + Enter (forums.anandtech.com)
Ctrl+T
'fac' + Enter (Facebook)
Ctrl+T
'gm' + Enter (Gmail)
Ctrl+T
'iama' + Enter (other website)
Ctrl+T
'rea' + Enter (Google Reader)

I can do that in probably less than 2 seconds. Then Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to navigate. If only more websites had keyboard shortcuts like Reader and GMail.

 

[Fayd]

I still utilize the bookmark function.

Am I some sort of Neanderthal?

:hmm:

nah... i have my bookmarks sitting in a frame off to the left. it stays open pretty much permanently.

tho for my more commonly visited sites, i did write bookmark keywords for them that i use alot.

 

[techs]

I read it on the internet. It must be true.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Click? Ctrl-L, newbie 🙂

Alt+D for lyfe yo!

 

[Blackjack200]

I still utilize the bookmark function.

Am I some sort of Neanderthal?

:hmm:

Nah, I use bookmarks at work where the different systems have archaic URLs and everything lives in the same domain anyway. But for most of my surfing I'm going to

NHL.com --> Just type "nhl" [down-arrow][enter]
Youtube --> "you"
SomethingAwful --> "forum" (I have to hit the down arrow twice here because of AT)
Wikipedia --> "wiki"
eharmony --> "eharm" (which I find amusing)
facebook --> "face" (I admit it)

etc. etc.

Have you tried this way? I just find it faster, but I'm a fairly quick typer.

It even works if you don't remember the whole URL, as long as you remember part of it, and sometimes if you recognize the specific page you're looking to get to in the auto-complete, you can skip the splash page all together. I think it would be a PITA to manage bookmarks that rigorously.

 

[coldmeat]

I prefer not to use the keyboard unless I have to. I usually sit on an angle, so it's a reach for my left hand.

And I don't see what could be faster than RMB up to create a new tab, then click an icon on the toolbar, but I guess if you like to sit straight up with both hands on the desk at all times using the keyboard is faster.

 

[Blackjack200]

I prefer not to use the keyboard unless I have to. I usually sit on an angle, so it's a reach for my left hand.

And I don't see what could be faster than RMB up to create a new tab, then click an icon on the toolbar, but I guess if you like to sit straight up with both hands on the desk at all times using the keyboard is faster.

?? I can't open a new tab with RMB. What browser are you using?