DooMBoy Posted August 28, 2003 I've noticed that whenever I click on the address bar and type in the address of the place I want to go (such as Something Awful or COMPET-N), I, oddly enough, wind up typing in doomworld.com/vb. Has anyone else had any kind of experiences like this? 0 Share this post Link to post
Tobester Posted August 28, 2003 Yeah. I keep opening the browser so I can go to the bearchive of the cg shrines or something but type in http://doomworld.com/forums/ even when I was losered 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted August 28, 2003 Heh heh, Hell yeah. No matter what I always start typing in da Doomworld address. 0 Share this post Link to post
DEMOn Posted August 28, 2003 Who types addresses in the address bar? I've done that only like 100 times ever. weird. definitely visit here at least three times a day... sadly. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted August 28, 2003 OK cool. Phew, I thought I was the only one....I guess not :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted August 28, 2003 Nanami said:So where's the scary part? Disorder said:I'm addicted. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 28, 2003 I use a bookmark icon, so I rarely type the URL :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted August 28, 2003 doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb doomworld.com/vb Heh. =P I always type it because it's faster to type than look for the bookmark. I only bookmark things I can't remember how to type out all the way. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 28, 2003 The bookmark is right beneath my location bar, so it's hardly extra work aiming for it :P 0 Share this post Link to post
goaxis Posted August 28, 2003 doomworld.com/vb it's very convenient to type fastly 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted August 28, 2003 I just have to hit the "Home" button to come here. 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted August 28, 2003 Heh. I start typing "doom" and either realize I'm not going there, or I am, and continue typing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted August 28, 2003 I often type out http://xfury and then realize I'm not going to xfury.net 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted August 28, 2003 I've got my home page set to Doomworld, and so I just click on the forum link after I start up IE. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 28, 2003 Nevermind what I said above, I've reorganized: Nanami: check out Firebird's keyword bookmarks feature. 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted August 28, 2003 IMJack said:I just have to hit the "Home" button to come here. Same here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted August 28, 2003 I don't bookmark doomworld. I set it as my homepage. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted August 28, 2003 I force myself to keep http://www.yahoo.com as my home page, so that I see some world news for at least a few seconds before coming to DW. I type in urls quite often, but often use the autocomplete, history list or a very poorly organized collection of bookmarks. Oddly enough, I normally get to compet-n via the links at DSDA, which is kind of inefficient. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jenblaze Posted August 28, 2003 Grazza said:I force myself to keep http://www.yahoo.com as my home page. me 2.. i have dw saved under my favorites 0 Share this post Link to post
Kate Posted August 28, 2003 I don't know why, but I type in unusual addresses even when I'm just going to click a button in Favorites. For example when I went to click "Doomworld Forums" link a few minutes ago, I went to the address bar and typed "zdoom.org" without realizing it. I saw what I did and was like "What am I doing?" 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted August 28, 2003 about:blank ^^^ Best homepage evar but yea, i do type in doomworld.com/vb occasionally when i dont mean to go there its just out of habit. and, bookmarks are overrated. i manually type every address i go to 0 Share this post Link to post
Epyo Posted August 28, 2003 Yeah, about:blank as your homepage will shave hours off your internet explorer load time. Ok maybe seconds. Yeah, I always type www.doomworld.com/vb, it's just so fun to type, www.doomworld.com/vb. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arno Posted August 28, 2003 Epyo said:Yeah, about :blank as your homepage will shave hours off your internet explorer load time. Ok maybe seconds. I have google.com as my homepage. It loads pretty fast and can be usefull from time to time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted August 28, 2003 Ah, but how fast can you type doomworld.com/vb? My best time is about .40 seconds. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted August 28, 2003 99% of the time I use a bookmark or copy+paste the url into the bar, so I hardly ever type up there. And why the heck would you use the Doomworld forums as a home page? Google takes much less time to load and is much much more useful. 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted August 28, 2003 if you think google loads fast NOW, wait till you try google.com/ie /me loads holy shit thats fast! 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted August 28, 2003 about:blank forever. And I never visit Google's front page, by the way. I type g <stuff> in the location bar to search for stuff when I need to. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted August 29, 2003 I have had Doomworld and DW Forums hotlinked for years. One click is better than two. I hate how hotlinking (bookmarks in direct view, below address bar, as opposed to Favorites menu) was screwed up after IE4. From IE5 on, having links in a pop-down folder in the hotlink bar opens the link IN A DIFFERENT window most of the time. Why would anyone want a bookmark they clicked on in one IE window opening up in another, seemingly random window? I'd say about 2/3 of the time, it opens in a window I don't want. So when I have other IE windows open, when I want to go to sub-hotlinks, I go Favorites, Links, Whatever, whatever.lnk... Four freaking clicks. 0 Share this post Link to post