About
Now that it has matured, the Internet and in particular the World Wide Web (WWW or Web), has now become one of the most defining things of this decade and also this century, as exemplified by the fact that we are now in what is referred to as “The Information Age”. It seems that nowadays everyone and their dog now has a website; there’s websites out there on everything and anything. Search engines are now considered an essential tool for any netizen (internet citizen), due to the fact that Internet is so vast and it’s hard to find anything without their assistance.
Many simply use the Web for nothing more than finding out the information they need, checking their emails and listening to their favourite podcast. Of course, there’s more to the internet than just the above; the DiggerCast team have donned their miner’s helmets and picked up their shovels and torches in an attempt to go to the deepest (and strangest) corners of the web to “dig up” the weird, amusing and just plain crazy websites that not many people usually get to see. We take a light-hearted look at these websites in an attempt to bring them to the masses.
Each week, a website is randomly chosen from a list that is made up of sites that the DiggerCast team has found and also what our listeners have submitted to us. In order to maintain the randomness and spontainity of the podcast, the website is not known to any of the team until the time that recording has commenced. The reactions are real, and it’s all unscripted… anything could happen! Occasionally (in a nod to the first DiggerCast pilot), we may also put in some random phrases into a search engine and hunt out the most obscure websites we can find. And in the tradition of that pilot… we also suggest that listeners join in on our hunt to find the most obscure oddities of the web by entering the same search terms as we do – though this is purely optional.
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