As general rule you should look at where a URL goes as well as what the link text.
A big ass link that is pointed towards tinyurl should have set off alarm bells for everyone who clicked the link.
That was slick @owl
It teaches about cybersecurity.
You son of a bitch! overnmentjobs 🤣
Thank you, I fixed it.
What a lad.
Incredible beautiful amazing
Ah fuck
In a way, you just took my virginity. It's the first time it's genuinely happened to me, I didn't see this coming. This is a great feeling but I also feel a bit ashamed.
It's alright. It's part of being online. It's a unique and strange feeling for sure.
Perfect in every way, good job.
I want my mommy
Bravo
Obviously this is a silly example, but I really do remember when they would write out full urls with paths like 3 directories deep in magazines and newspapers expecting you to manually enter those urls and visit whatever site. I hated that shit in the early days of the internet in grade school. "http://www.theentireforty-ninecharacterlongnameofthecompany.com/marketingadvertisements/newspapertimes/landingpage79fad5c21e.html" (don't click that link... i just made it up. It doesn't go anywhere.) I could barely type but now I have to get every character correct or I might accidentally end up on a black market website or porn somehow (where my fellow Whitehouse dot com victims at?). QR codes and smartphones really are godsend for print media internet ads.
P.S. I told you it didn't go anywhere. You feel better now?
P.P.S. Apparently Whitehouse dot com still functions but is no longer porn. It's some election betting thing now? Idk.
I clicked that link
The one in the newspaper? Me too
My first memory of being told to go to a web address was in 4th grade. My teacher wrote a fairly long URL on the board as something those of us who had internet at home could go look at about the lesson she was talking about. So we were expected to write this URL down on paper, and then later type it into a computer. This very slightly predates AOL keywords.
It took awhile before engineers also became UX people and were like “ok, but let’s start the project from an end user’s point of view.”
Unfortunately soon after that, marketers took over as the bosses of the UX people and were like “ok, let’s start this from a ‘how do we get more people clicking the buy now button’ point of view.”
You could use ` to make that URL an inline code block and thus not clickable. `like this` to look
like thisSeemed more fun this way
What would be funnier is if instead of an address, it was a hyperlink embedded text that says : Click Here.
You know what? I forgive url shorteners, sometimes they truly are necessary
Why has nobody invented a URL longener?
URL Shorteners can go down.
QR Codes would literally contain the entire link without relying on a third-party service.
But since they included session information on that URL, the link would still be invalid for everyone
Out of frame, above the other text: "Job requirements: experience with OCR-tools."
How was OCR in 2013? This mightve basically been the test for the job
It was bad.
we have a truly marvelous application process, which this margin is too small to contain
Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
Sadly they've already deleted that page because the URL has "trans" in it. >.>
If I remember this site correctly from back then, it was one of those run by idiots that made you upload a PDF of your résumé, and then enter all of the same info in web forms. This tracks.
I'm pretty sure 90% of that is just a tracking link, you could probably ignore everything after and including the question mark
It would need the job Id parameter, but the rest looks like unnecessary filters
No, its search parameters. Likely everything after the job ID is not needed though.
I wish someone would type that out into the comments, so I could click the dead link and feel a small sense of satisfaction; simply by knowing it was dead before I even clicked it, confirming my suspicion
But it's the internet... so 50/50 whether some hero does it for no reason, or someone throws some kinda rick-roll response. Either way, I ain't typing it out and I can live with the disappointment... sorry y'all, I'll try and be better next time
Nice call on the Rick Roll.
damn i missed the deadline by 12 years...
Maybe they're looking for someone who's good at OCR
Google Lens can probably get it in seconds.
Data entry operator?
Somebody correct me, but I remember a url (or any long piece of text) can contain a small image. I think it was hexadecimal code. I was looking for the words "base16=" or "base32=".
You are correct those are called "data urls", they're intended to embed files in text.
This is not a data url tho, it's an ugly link
What you mean is base64, and yeah.
In this case the latter part of the link is URL-encoded XML and probably unnecessary, I'd guess that only the first two parameters of the URL are really mandatory, but who knows. There are many ancient and ugly as hell web apps out there.
I mean if you type up to the jobid=xyz it'll work fine :p
I wore out my percent key typing in the url.
This reminds me of how my coworker's little girl wrote Santa a letter and wrote out the Amazon links of everything she wanted in much the same fashion.
I'm sure apps that convert images to text will help with accessing the website.
I thought they didn't have apps in 2013
Reminds me of my phoniatrics teacher who printed out a link for us as homework instead of just sending us the link via email
Pfff these Cavemen still haven't learned of the invention of QR Codes
That’s some column inches.
