As the Internet has progressed, there are some bad things that have happened, such as comments on ESPN stories. However, there have been some good things - Such as people finally getting appropriate web site addresses for themselves.The best / worst example of this was Major League Baseball, which for years was only accessible via:
http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com
This is quite annoying, since you would naturally think that MLB.com would bring you to the proper site. Nope! Instead, some lawyers owned it, which must have been great for them because they were constantly overwhelmed with traffic for Major League Baseball. Click here to see what the site used to look like - Apparently people would get so misled that they felt the need to put a link on their site to the actual MLB.
Anyway, MLB eventually bought them out, as most big companies did. This of course led to a perverse situation where people would just squat on domains - like AdamCarolla.com - and hope that someone would buy them out. Carolla famously refused to, and called the guy a pussy multiple times on national radio.
... I'm not really sure where I was going with this entry tonight. Sorry! The baseball clip art is from here.
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