URL ABC
A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.
- A: http://www.atebits.com/
- B: http://buildconference.com/
- C: http://copypastecharacter.com/
- D: http://dribbble.com/
- E: http://eat.ly/
- F: http://www.flickr.com/
- G: http://gowalla.com/
- H: http://hahlo.com/
- I: http://www.instapaper.com/
- J: http://jquery.com/
- K: https://www.kbc.be/ (my bank)
- L: http://www.ligatureloopandstem.com/
- M: http://maxvoltar.com/
- N: http://neutroncreations.com/
- O: http://ondertitel.com/ (subtitles)
- P: http://pixelmatrixdesign.com/
- Q: http://www.quirksmode.org/
- R: http://reader.google.com/
- S: http://spencerfry.com/
- T: http://twitter.com/
- U: http://uicandy.net/
- V: http://veerle.duoh.com/
- W: http://weightshift.com/
- X: http://xkcd.com/
- Y: http://www.youtube.com/
- Z: http://www.zeldman.com/
Some of these I haven’t visited in ages, or I briefly checked them out, but it seems there aren’t many websites starting with an H, O, Q or U…
Yes, I’m a bit bored.
Edit: Looks like it’s picking up: Sam Brown, Wil Linssen, Marc Roberts, Thomas Decrick, Thomas Maier, Andy Clarke, Bradford Dielman, Yaili, Owen Gregory, Elliot Jay Stocks, Matthew Maber, Alex Blundell, Ian P. Hines, Christoph Zillgens, Jose Burgos jr., Bert Timmermans, Edmundo Junior, The Standardistas, Anthony, Joshua Brewer, Matt Kempster, Pat Dryburgh and many more (not adding them here anymore, need to get some actual work done) made their own list.
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Stijn
4690 days ago
I’ve been regularly doing the same experiment with Google suggest. The last major change I noticed was Facebook overtaking Fox News. For some strange reason, the letter “R” doesn’t house any real big shots.
Andy Good
4690 days ago
It was quite noble of you to self-censor & exclude the copious amount of porn sites that actually showed up first.
Ben Bodien
4690 days ago
We own your N.
Sam Brown
4690 days ago
Good show. My return.
Pat
4690 days ago
I’m a little bummed I couldn’t find one for Q.
isaac bordons
4690 days ago
Match only with the “F” and the “Y”.
Marc Roberts
4690 days ago
That’s a great idea, I’ve put my list up too. There are a few surprising results for me but mostly as expected.
Thomas Maier
4690 days ago
My return :)
Bradford Dielman
4690 days ago
Fun game, Time. Here’s my list.
matthew
4690 days ago
I gave it a go too. URL ABC
Rich Clark
4690 days ago
Tim,
None for ‘H’. I’m shocked, I thought you’d have checked out HTML5Doctor?! (he says, shamelessly plugging a site he writes for… I’l get my coat)
Alex Blubndell
4690 days ago
Likewise, Pretty poor show though from me..
URL ABCIan P. Hines
4690 days ago
Wonderful idea, if I do say so myself.
Nick Frühling
4690 days ago
How could your G result NOT be Google?
Marc
4690 days ago
I’ve got about 15 results under “G” before Google comes up. Kind of odd considering how much I search Google….
Dirk
4690 days ago
Tried it myself, back in January, but the results were not quite what I was expecting
Christoph Zillgens
4690 days ago
Funny idea :) So I jumped on the bandwagon
Bert Timmermans
4690 days ago
Great idea ! Here is my list ;-)
Edmundo Junior
4690 days ago
Funny! I made my list too :D
MrQwest
4690 days ago
Sounds like a bit of fun – and it’s interesting to see what sites people use on the regular basis! A nice way of finding some quality websites & services too!
Here’s my list > http://mrqwest.co.uk/blog/66/url-abc
Stripperin
4690 days ago
Super idea! The list ist big and funny…
Joshua Brewer
4689 days ago
Love it! Here is my list: http://jbrewer.tumblr.com/post/259964262/url-abc
Matt Kempster
4689 days ago
My turn!
mattsk.com/journal/url-abc
Deanacus
4689 days ago
I gave it a go. Just a pity that I cleared my history recently, and I only got like 5 results.
Chris Wallace
4689 days ago
I just switched from PC to Mac, so I had to boot up the old iron beast to get some of these but here it is.
David A McClain
4689 days ago
Great fun. My list is mostly geeky work related stuff.
http://uhhuhyeah.com/distractions/url-abc
Thomas
4689 days ago
Awesome. Here’s mine.
Gareth Trufitt
4689 days ago
Some good resources in there, here is my ABCs: http://trufitt.com/2009/11/url-abc/ :)
Dylan Pine
4689 days ago
Haha – nice idea for a game. So random… Here’s mine: http://dylanpine.com/post/260782274
Rob Hawkes
4688 days ago
I thought I’d give this a go. You can find my list here: http://rawkes.com/blog/2009/11/29/url-abc
Chris Enns
4688 days ago
Love it. Here’s my list: http://www.mennoboy.com/farawaysoclose/2009/11/27/url-abc/
bbx
4687 days ago
It’s interesting how Firefox’s and Chrome’s address bars work differently. Chrome uses the 1st letter of the site’s domain whereas Firefox will choose a popular visited website whose url contains the typed letter. (sorry for not being very clear…)
For example with letter “R” :
Chrome = http://www.random.org (“R” is the 1st letter, though I visited this site only once!)
Firefox = http://www.google.com/reader (there are 2 “R” in the url)
Anyway here’s my (french) list too :-) : http://bbxdesign.com/2009/11/27/url-abc-lalphabet-de-votre-barre-dadresse/
Gerardo Diaz Martinez
4686 days ago
Wow! This is a great exercise to get to know people better!!
Here is mine:
http://gerardodiaz.wordpress.com
Thanks.
Zander
4686 days ago
Cool idea, here’s my version: http://rathersplendid.net/home/url-abc
Lee Munroe
4685 days ago
Ha, nice idea! Build and YouTube and the two that we have in common
Jose Burgos jr.
4685 days ago
I think Youtube has dominated everyone’s Y lol.
Sean Delaney
4685 days ago
Thought I’d play along and add my own:
http://www.seandelaney.ie/blog/2009/12/02/url-abc/
Steven Rossi
4683 days ago
Nice idea.
Here’s my list.
cchana
4679 days ago
My list
Paul Randall
4679 days ago
I’ve added my list now on my blog: http://prandall.com/2009/12/08/url-abc/
On my blog I also show how to style an ordered list and use CSS to display it as capitalised letters.