Sometimes days are boring and you feel like doing nothing. You want to lock yourself up at home with a big sad headd. And then suddenly you remember that maybe an online chat will cheer you up - you know, with some stranger on the other side of the globe - that sort of thing. And when you want to connect to a chatroom, it is not working because of slow connection or disturbed connection. Then you want to shut down the Internet itself. Oh, what a wonderful idea - to be able to visit the last page on the Internet! Try it once, before you try out the first page on the Internet or the middle page on the Internet.
Some people are born boring; others like John Ingram, thrust boredom upon the rest of the world. And so as we tread upon the gargantuan bog called the Internet, we slip and wonder: why? Why did John Ingram create a site that has nothing but just 413 (exactly) words of text? Why did he create a site that has no meaning, no reason to exist, and no way to earn him even a cent, forget a fortune? But it takes all kinds, and Ingram is one of those. He is rational in his thought, grammatically correct in his writing (although) for some reason he hates capital letters), and has enough reasons to keep the world’s most boring site alive at all times since its “founding” in 1996. Is that why his site has now been translated into 12 languages including Finnish, French, Swedish, Norwegian, and, hold your breath, ladies and gentleman, Pig Latin? World War II is obviously history since here we have a German as well as a Hebrew translation sitting right next to each other. The site, Ingram informs us...
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