Hit Me Baby -- Never Again!!!

I rarely come across an old vestige of Web 1.0 design.  For the most part, the sites that I now patronize are very Web 2.0.  What this means is actually open to a lot of interpretation.  I look at Web 1.0 design like I look at an old episode of the '60s "Star Trek": good for its time and still relevant today. 

There is of course always an exception to this rule. 

I was cruzing around the 'net today and stumbled upon the greatist travesty known to webkind, a ***king HIT COUNTER in the website!

Understand, this was a totally new Web 2.0 website.  It looked great.  As I scrolled to the bottom, I noticed the bastard counter hiding in the bottom right hand corner of the site.  As I dug deeper into the site, the damn hit counter showed up everywhere, even in the comments.  I'll empahsize this again for you web designers our there.  Each comment had its OWN hit counter!   

I'm a great fan of creativity, but the designer of this "not to be named" site should at least understand that there are a lot of other alternatives to just placing a hit counter in every page of your site.  He or she should be put on trial in the court of ancient web technology and sentenced to 5-10 years of Mechanical Turk service.

Most people will charge me with "Web snobbery", and I'll gladly plead guilty. 

Dude Pets.com called and wants their Flooz back.