Gervase Markham asks Who owns the alphabet?. Being more of a numbers guy myself, I was curious about digits. Similar disclaimers apply.
| First Hit | Description | Comment | Honourable Mentions (top 10) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | The W3C Validator | A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. | An appropriate start, perhaps due to XHTML 1.0? | Netscape, Microsoft, Business 2.0, an AOL error page (!) |
| 1 | The W3C Validator | A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. | Hmm. XHTML 1.0 and 1.1? | VH1, Bobby, Mozilla.org, BBC 1 |
| 2 | The W3C Validator | A free service…. | The W3 again. Weird coincidence? (Top10) Many others have found that having a 2 in your name doubles your fun (and PageRank, apparently). | Learn2.com, Internet2, Playstation.com |
| 3 | The W3C Validator | A free service and so forth. | And again the W3. Conspiracy, anyone? | 3Com, QuickTime, id. |
| 4 | The W3C Validator | Yadda yadda yadda. | This just isn’t funny any more. What, does the World Wide Web Consortium own Google? (Top10) Finally, some new contenders. | Macromedia, Microsoft, PHP, United States Postal Service |
| 5 | Macromedia | Servlet/JSP engines. | Description from their site. Oh, and a little thing called Flash, too. (Top10) All the old regulars. | Microsoft, Apple, Opera |
| 6 | Macromedia | Servlet/JSP engines. | Does anyone else sense a pattern? | Netscape, Microsoft, Motel 6, Adobe |
| 7 | Netscape | All NEW Netscape 7.0 – Netscape’s FASTEST browser! | (Top 10) Finally some new sites again. | Real, Jasc, 7-Eleven |
| 8 | Real | One easy way to play every major media format in one amazing Player. | (Top10) Wow. A Your browser sucks! page. I thought those were dead. | Super 8 Motels, ISC BIND, WinZip, SPring-8 (synchrotron), entropy8zuper.org |
| 9 | Number Nine | Number Nine Visual Technology has ceased operation. | The company has been out of business for years and it’s still number one. (Top10) Finally a category not dominated by corporations. Too bad it’s the last. | 9-11peace.org, The Nine Planets, Plan 9 OS |