So, I am doing my civic duty as a gamer and a man bored at work; carousing about the local forums and seeing what people had to say. How I usually work it, is I'll look for interesting game posts, learn something, and the person who teaches me something [passively of course], I check out there profiles and see if they have anything worth chatting to. So, I ran into someone who I thought may have been a cynical bas***d like myself, so I checked him out. Turns out he is worst than me. He seemed like one of them anti-social bondage pants class fools, and thusly I began to be inspired on this blog.
The subject at hand are TAGS and their uses. TAGS are great. This person thought otherwise. I suppose he got mad because people got simple awards for tagging. Honestly, tagging is the only reason the kids has the internet. Join me, on this tasking of the mind to journey about the history of the internets.
The civil internet was created in the late 80's and first arrived in the Baltic areas, I would look this info up, but no need for specifics. The WWW didn't emerge to the civil internet until America decided to unlock it's own technologies of communication and thusly established itself in the early/mid nineties. If we can look back we can remember those old, now unused, search engines like Lycos, Excite, and Hotbot. This functioned off of producer tags. This means, when the website was established, the website itself had to have a certain amount of code directing the search engines certain ASC keystrokes [CHR(##)'s] would lead them to their site. It was pretty 'bodacious'.
A little later Yahoo emerged and began creating associated embarked tagging, or simply put, producer tagging MK II. Now the tagging system generated itself through the actual browser. Meaning you actually went to Yahoo, established your website, and placed tags in a data field. Then the use of Geocities [before Yahoo bought them] had local tags which would then generate out to several pre-placed search engines and tagging ID's. People began finding 'Pokemon' sites with alot more ease.
Now finally, tagging began to become an enterprise that was unoticed to many of the 'new-comers' of the internet, due to the excelled process of GOOGLE!. Google changed tagging forever for main-stream still existing search engines. It used a source code and engine that would spread it's data on it's own to websites. Using keywords from the past and applying them to existing, untagged, websites. This was an 'ethereal' net establishment; meaning that when you searched for pokemon your keywords and 'clicking' upon certain links were put into algorithms for a search database. The more keywords used in association to hitting the website or clicking, the more popular the website would become on the list of priority.
So all in all, TAGS ARE THE ONLY REASON YOU CAN USE THE INTERNET! Now, why do forums and websites have to use 'user' based tags? Well, believe it or not, a search engine of google's capacity is a multi-million rent stub. So it's alot easier for a search engine to be user built. And Gamespot, amongst many other PHP forums, allow users to place their tags on pre-ordained subjects. And this system is great, because now users can use simple keywords to find what they want.
In conclusion. I was able to find my favorite PSX game due to people using the tag system here. So suck upon the fury of tags and dwell back in your ignorance towards them.