So I was training the other day at work. It was fine, mostly boring... but I did notice something interesting. The guy I was training wasn't too hip to the computer scene. In fact, he couldn't type or do 10-key (which to my surprise isn't that rare, but that's a different story). So he knew a little about the internet... but not really that much. He referred to google as "that googly-thing". Yeah. So any way, watching him type was frustrating (he did one hand hunt and peck), but watching him navigate the internet was painful! The weird thing was that I wasn't getting frustrated at him... I was getting frustrated at the internet! I've come to the conclusion that the internet sucks. I mean, we're all pretty damned accostmed to its ins and outs. We know what a pop-up is, and close things without worries. He had like 50 windows up at one point, he was afraid to close things. He had no idea how to get to places he wanted to, and why? Not because he was dumb, not because he didn't know how to use a computer. It was because the internet sucks. It's filled with crap. Those of us who spend all day on it are just too used to it, we're the locals that have been around since the beginning. Yet, my internet bretheren... take a look at the new comers, they are drowning in a sea of pop-ups, blind-redirects, and just plain lack of knowledge. What should we do? Probably nothing, if normal people figure out how to use the internet we'll lose our elitist edge, and can no longer feel good about ourselves. So this is it: my call to inaction! Unite and do nothing!