What did you think was going to happen?

The commercialization of the internet screens has reached a point of sheer laughability. Go to a page that somewhere is supposed to contain some possibly enlightening information or a news story or human drama or something interesting out there in the infinity of cyberspace and you’re now hit with a fascinating mosaic of flashes and beeps and boops, animations, exclamation points, jingles, and entrancing boobs (of course) that altogether fill 80% of the visual/aural real estate. That percentage progresses by increments of 3% every six months.

Like the billboards on the sides of the road couldn’t just remain in their state of static obnoxiousness, they (of course) had to progress to a very dynamically rotating obnoxiousness.

It’s a business world.

So while driving I practice staring straight ahead. In regard to the internet, what I do is click on the link and when the page loads I immediately hit Ctrl-A / Ctrl-C. That selects the textual information and copies it to the clipboard. Then I get away from the hyper-commercialized screen as fast as I can, open my simple text-editor program, hit Ctrl-V, and just read the text of the article. Poor me, in my gray and textual world, missing out on all the color, animation, beeps, boops, and boobs . . .