A few years back I stumbled upon a website with a brief home page and all other internal links and tabs being pages filled with Latin. My wife, with some knowledge of Latin and Latin word roots, determined it was random words in Latin. We passed it by our pet pig and she confirmed it was not Pig Latin. A little research found that at one time a software company sold a web page development program that filled linked future pages with Latin word salad instead of blank pages of “page under development” or “Error 404 page not found”. The thinking was web search engines are more likely not to show a site with little or no content, so fill blank pages with gibberish.
Hopefully by the time you read this you have established a new email address and smashed all of your existing hardwired and wireless devices and replaced with new, promptly installed with antivirus software.
If a sequel is ever to be written to Lewis Carrol’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ it should be titled ‘Think Before You Click’.
Thanks, Michael G. The funny thing is that even before my Substack posting the original message had disappeared. Just like I used to be on you-know-who’s list and thought it was good to know what he was up to. Haven’t heard from him recently though. Interesting news about the use of Latin. I feel sorry for people who have nothing better to occupy their time than trying to be clever.
A few years back I stumbled upon a website with a brief home page and all other internal links and tabs being pages filled with Latin. My wife, with some knowledge of Latin and Latin word roots, determined it was random words in Latin. We passed it by our pet pig and she confirmed it was not Pig Latin. A little research found that at one time a software company sold a web page development program that filled linked future pages with Latin word salad instead of blank pages of “page under development” or “Error 404 page not found”. The thinking was web search engines are more likely not to show a site with little or no content, so fill blank pages with gibberish.
Hopefully by the time you read this you have established a new email address and smashed all of your existing hardwired and wireless devices and replaced with new, promptly installed with antivirus software.
If a sequel is ever to be written to Lewis Carrol’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ it should be titled ‘Think Before You Click’.
Thanks, Michael G. The funny thing is that even before my Substack posting the original message had disappeared. Just like I used to be on you-know-who’s list and thought it was good to know what he was up to. Haven’t heard from him recently though. Interesting news about the use of Latin. I feel sorry for people who have nothing better to occupy their time than trying to be clever.