Post by Joe
I suppose the second post is what makes a poorly put together website officially a “blog.” And since the first post was actually part 1 of a serialized story (unless I never post part 2) I guess this is the official second blog post. In which case, say goodbye to our half ass-ed single posted website, and say hello to our half ass-ed multi-post blog, conveniently located on our half ass-ed formerly single post website.
While discussing the finer things with my compatriot, Dave, the conversation turned to the nature of acomplisment. Read: While drinking and discussing the nature of fame, I blurted out something altogher useless, and entiretly unrelated to the conversation regarding how to get famous. We both felt that, in certain fields, one can achieve a certain level of notoriety simply by putting a name to something common, but henceforth unnamed. The Internet is one of thoes areas where assigning a title to something you didn’t invent is entirely acceptable. As far as I know, whoever came up with this -> : ) didn’t coin either emoticon, or smiley. Somebody else did, but I don’t know who (more on this in a minute.) The point is, nobody said “Hey fella, you didnt attach a colon and a half of a paraenth… parenthase… this–> ) That other dude did. Don’t you think he (she?) should have a stab at naming it?” Nope. Emoticon was accepted, no questions asked. Also Smiley. Smiley works to. Two people got to name it, and neither one of them invented it.
So I, in the interested of me getting achieving fame (and hopefully money) without work, I have decided to do the same. But you may say “Even if this name thing you come up with catches on, how do you expect to get famous? You just said that nobody knows who named these things?” Shut up, I know what I said. The difference here is that I am creating a longwinded blog post. (Blog is another example) And now, the term I have created…..
But first, some further ado….
It is very important that, from now on, any time you hear anybody using my term, that you tell them “You know, that guy Joe who writes on that crappy potato blog came up with that term. Isn’t that cool?” They probably won’t care, and at that point you should take the opportunity to describe something from a future post you found funny (forshadowing?) in a “you-had-to-be-there” style delievery. This will undoubtably make them curious about checking out this blog. And now, do you see the magesty of my plan? I use this blog to announce the new phrase, the new phrase then serves to advertise my blog (through you, the loyal and as-of-yet nonexistant reader) which helps spread the use of the phrase (and any subsequent phrases) which will advertise the site in an endless feedback loop. All serving the glory of me.
The term is efossile. It refers to a website that has been online for a very long time, and has long since fallen out of use. Like a fossile, it is often found by accident, and is when its stumbled upon, it is of little practicle use. It primarily serves as a reminder of “how far we’ve come.” Hereis an example of one, an old maxpages of mine. These pages are characterized by their centered text body, their rotating .gif images, and their good ol’ hit counter. They have been buried by the modern internet, but every so often they get dug up.
And so, efossil. Or Web fossile, thats ok to. Either one, I claim them both. And while I’m at, this–> : ) is now known as “Mr. Colon”
