Is there a techno-speak term to describe the feelings invoked by online places?

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This is a bit geeky I guess, but I'm wondering say, when I click on Mega Upload, and ads for swingers sites and stuff pop up everywhere, I sort of think "ugh" and quicken my virtual step. It's like "this is a nasty area of internet".

Is there a name for this? Besides "PSYCHOSIS" or something. Has anyone researched this kind of thing?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

AN AREA OF INTERNET THE SIZE OF IRELAND

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

ok.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's called bukakke isn't it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

"quicken my virtual step" => this is such a perfect description! the sudden feeling of being in a sleazy back-neighbourhood of the internet and feeling its crepiness crawl over your skin, and moving the mouse almost too quickly and jaggedly in your need to shut the popup down as soon as possible. I don't know of a word but there definitely needs to be one.

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

eek swingers lol ok i have to say i have the same reaction, to hard core porn ads

― David Kennedy (funny ringtones), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

> sleazy back-neighbourhood of the internet

the undernet? (actually, that's a popular irc network)
the hinternet?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

While swapping gmails with another ilxor last week, g00gl3 seemed to think we desperately wanted to look at a swingers site based on the ads it placed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad I'm not the only one, I want to write about this but just want to make sure if there is documentation about it I include that.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are there places like this in Second Life and stuff? I presume so...

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

It would be really impressive if it were! For some reason I think this sort of vague repulsion&dread&upset&looking-over-your-shoulder-to-deny-that-this-is-you is something you forget about when you're not experiencing it, so I think my opinion of SL would go up if I knew it could engender that sort of feeling in the player.

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

dave chappelle did a pretty ace sketch about this - http://youtube.com/watch?v=NirgsZnYtdE

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

And, of course, that Jennifer Saunders ad.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

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