Under Construction Images are bad. They are stupid, pointless, and take up unnecessary bandwidth. Everyone knows that all Web pages are under construction, so why do we need to state it so bluntly, let alone use images to illustrate our incompetency?

There are way too many sites that tell us that they are "Under Construction". A search for "under construction" yields 1493395 hits on AltaVista. (20 Jan 97)

Here is a good satirical link for Under Construction Image lovers. And another which predicts what you are like by your Under Construction Image.

Under Construction images are never seen at highly popular and constantly changing web sites such as Netscape CNN, Yahoo!, or Lycos. If the best don't do it, neither should the worst. Under Construction Images should be removed from the layout of all Web pages. Take yours off now!

Our cause is gaining strength and recognition: check out the Under Construction Image FAQ : (well, sorry, i guess they're still under construction, and the old link now leads to mad porno lovin', but anyway). The founder, Rusty ---------- declared us the arch-enemy.

How does one combat such a problem? It is a very challenging question. Many people have told me about how cool of an anti-image they can create, some have even submitted such things. But that will be of no consequence. All that will happen is that one useless kind of image will be replaced by another. Thus the only allowable option is text and word of mouth discouragement. Kinda like the anti-drunk-driving campaigns... Friends don't let each other be incredible stupid or something like that. So, tell your friends that their pages are stupid if they insist on visually demonstrating how incompetent they really are.

Here is the official roster of the People Against Under Construction Images Club: (If you want to join the club, mail me your homepage's URL and tell me you want to join.) New members will only be accepted through 11:59p.m., 31 October 1997. If you wish to start an adjunct page, feel free to mail me also.

Ok, so now three years after putting up that deadline, I am finally changing this page, if ever so little. Let's just say that most people who have mailed me still aren't listed and probably none of these links even work anymore. But hey... Enjoy!

Mark Adler Dag Agren Deren Ash Astar Karim Awena Armand Audette/Even'tide Motel and Cottages Eric Anastas Russ Bair Alan Baird Christopher Baker Lauralea Banks Jeni Barovian Klaus Brantl Elwood Bredell Scott Breger Wayne Buckhanan* Lia Bulaong James C Tom Cannon Bryan Carney Gregg Cassidy Roger Chiu Finn Ekberg Christiansen Mark Clifford Cory Coleman Daniel Constien "Mister Dan" Martin Deutsch Mike Down Adrian Dorsman Steven Dufour Matthias Ebersp"acher Lauri Eklin Matt Faulhaber Roman Felder Lindsay Francis Joergen Geerds Da Ghostrider Dennis Goodwin N. Goossens Tom Gordon GVRagnarok

Frank Hall Casey Heckman Mike Howell Pontus Hymer Wade Iedema Joseph Christopher Jones Dan Jones Jeremy Jones Peter Kearney Gordon Kindlmann Jere Knuuttila Todd Koehler Thorsten Konetzko Erik LaBianca* Jeff Land Linda Lansford Andrew Lias Lucas Lima Adam Livingstone Raul Llamas Benjamin Loomis Steven Loomis Ronen Magid Juliebug Martin Tom Mason Chuck Masucci Claudine Mattingly Sean Mattingly* Ann McDermott Gregg McDonald Gavin McKay Philipp Meier Thomas Meier Justin Montgomery Linda Moore Kamran Mushtaq Pete Nelson Jens Hoffmann Olsen Bryan Opfer Stephen Penna

Sami Poikonen Jake Pszonowsky Martin Raknerud Eric Riback Bill Robertson* Jim Robertson* Steve Rogers Annabelle Salcedo Sam0830 Sam Samshuijzen (search for klurrepie for his homepage) Oliver Schmid Ben Schy Sini Hank Shiffman Sahithi Shiva Doug Show Karlos Smith Scott Souders Robin Springer Jan Staff Neal Stangis Margaret Stewart Petter Sundlf Matthew Sweet Ainsley Tai Susan Talbutt Noel Tamayo Jim Thompson Anthony Toghia David Underhill Harry Upmal Roed Valgallianse Joern Vehoff Eran Vered Adam Voith Ken Wallin Ms. Whatsit Greg Wirth Boris Zaslavsky And of course, Me*

* Charter Member

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