Web Surf in Reverse!

Web surf in reverse means using the often hidden "back pointers" to surf, instead of clicking through using regular links.

I love to surf the web, but I'm always following the content posted by someone else.
I sometimes post my own content, but then readers are following again. Always leading and following, leading and following. Isn't their another way?

What if you could follow a different path?

Step 1 The STATS tab

Instructables has a great tool for web surf in reverse, the STATS tab.

Go to your favorite instructables project, click the STATS tab.

Hover your cursor over the orange links below. Don't click yet!

Why this Instructable? I surf a lot. In the past (my personal pre-Instructables era), I used to find only a few really good new websites a year. Truly inspiring and memorable stories and projects were not that common. When I would share my discoveries with friends and family, they would ask, "how do you find those weird and novel websites?" I used to say I click a lot. Just click through and you will find new and interesting things.

With Instructables and web surf in reverse I am now overloaded with new weird and novel websites. I don't have to click so much now, thanks to the STATS tab.

Comments

[shoyru_master_11]

Go Cosmo key!

[maxstevenson]

Thanks for the comments lemonie! I've seen a bunch of your great comments around. I surprised myself how long it took to get a good picture with the mirror. I recounted the pics, its only 79, I'll change that. The main trick for me was to figure out the focus. I had to get a focus lock by aiming the camera at the monitor first, then swivel around 180 degrees and take the picture of the mirror. The attached images illustrate the issue. Even though the image was now clear, the image of the monitor was just too small. For the final shot the mirror was touching the monitor to get a large enough image. The finger sling is just a little joke. I hope you liked it. I was holding the rubber bands above my finger with a stick. Not sure what you mean about the flip horizontal. I did use it to make the letters upright.

[maxstevenson]

Oh Cool! I use Picasa and didn't know about "flip horizontal" or "flip vertical". Thanks! (I confused it with 'rotate' in my last comment.) Of course I knew I could digitally 'flip' the image, but I assumed I needed Photoshop or equivalent, which I don't have. So I used a hand mirror because I wanted to do a little more hands on and have a mirror as part of the image. It was fun. Attached is the same intro image for the reverse web surf instructable, displayed on my monitor, then photographed again through the mirror, to make it non-reversed, but still framed in the hand mirror. The photo was part of my original 45 minutes of fooling around with these images. No flip tool was used.

[lemonie]

I admire that you went to a lot of effort to take the photograph with the mirror, you stubbornly refused to use "flip horizontal" right to the end..? It's a good illustration of where you can get to by rooting around. Are you going to post an Instructable on the finger-sling? L