A few years ago, I did a little meme which was supposed to put your web surfing into sharp relief. Basically, you type a letter into your address bar, and then note what the first thing that comes up is. Let’s see how that’s changed:
| Letter | Then | Now |
| A | http://amazon.co.uk/ | http://amazon.co.uk |
| B | http://blurbomat.com/ | http://www.blackbusheschoolofflying.com/ |
| C | http://catchthat.net/ | http://catchthat.net/ |
| D | http://dilbert.com | http://dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random |
| E | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ |
| F | http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/ | http://www.facebook.com/ |
| G | http://www.google.com/reader/view/ | http://www.google.co.uk/reader |
| H | http://www.haloscan.com/comments/ | http://www.hotmail.com/ |
| I | http://icanhascheezburger.com/ | http://www.ibishotel.com/ |
| J | https://www.jack-roe.co.uk | http://www.just-eat.co.uk/ |
| K | http://kcl.facebook.com/profile.php | http://www.kfh.co.uk/ |
| L | http://lemonademadedaily.blogspot.com/ | https://login.facebook.com/ |
| M | http://mail.hillan.org/ | http://maps.google.co.uk/ |
| N | http://news.bbc.co.uk/ | http://news.bbc.co.uk/ |
| O | http://www.onthebox.com/ | http://order-order.com/ |
| P | http://photos.ucfro.org/ | http://panel.dreamhost.com/ |
| Q | nuffin | Nothing at all |
| R | http://www.reghardware.co.uk/ | http://ryanair.com/ |
| S | http://www.sitemeter.com/ | http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ |
| T | http://www.theregister.co.uk/ | http://www.theregister.co.uk/ |
| U | http://uk.search.yahoo.com/ | http://www.ulsterflyingclub.com/ |
| V | http://vocalearth.com/blog/ | http://www.vodafone.com/ |
| W | http://weblog.straytoaster.co.uk/ | https://webmail.hillan.org/ |
| X | nuffin | http://xkcd.com/ |
| Y | http://youtube.com/ | http://www.youtube.com/ |
| Z | http://www.zoebowyer.co.uk/blog/ | Nothing at all |
A few things that have changed there, but not a lot. Unless you count B & U being there. Oh, and J is a nice, healthy thing to be there. Don’t you think?