The Web is very broken :(

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In the beginning there were Scrapbook and Prestel. And all servers followed the same standard to represent font changes and hyperlinks. Then came the World Wide Web. There initially was a common standard, called HTML, that web authors agreed to use, in order to minimise differences between content authoring across different servers. Nowadays regrettably, you have websites which allow embedded HTML (like "<A HREF=http://mywebsite.com/index.html"> Visit My Web Site </A>" for example, but as often happens the "bosses of industry" claimed that real users would not understand it, and so just like Babel, they invented atrocities like BBSscript, and alternative browsers like Vewd (which I am regrettably burdened with, for reasons which will be developed in next month's Diversity Saturday (q.v.). Vewd does not honour ^C/^V, and so if a user types a hyperlink such as http://tinyurl.com/sheilasys, there is no way for the reader to follow it other than typing the whole thing into the address bar. Then there are certain hobbyist webforums that let you type an entire post into an input box, and if the sysop has set a filter on a particular phrase (WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU FELIX!!), rejects the entire post without explanation. Needless to say, such idiotic websites soon lose their userbase (YAY!). Anyway, if any users post a link they believe I can follow, I shall refer them to this post -- I say again IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT! I might even point a TinyURL to this post, for future usage :)