---
title: "URL ABC"
author: Marc Roberts
date: 2009-11-27
url: https://www.marcroberts.info/2009/url-abc/
tags: [procrastination]
---

# URL ABC

> This is an old post recovered from the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org).

Here’s a fun game from [Tim Van Damme](https://web.archive.org/web/20091216101018/http://maxvoltar.com/articles/url-abc).

A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.

Here’s my list of sites:

A: [amazon.co.uk](https://amazon.co.uk)

B: [blinkbox.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20091212064234/http://blinkbox.com)

C: cacti.<domain hidden>

D: [docs.google.com](https://docs.google.com)

E: [emberapp.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20091115224247/http://emberapp.com)

F: [facebook.com](https://facebook.com)

G: [google.com](https://google.com)

H: [hsbc.co.uk](https://hsbc.co.uk)

I: [imdb.com](https://imdb.com)

J: [journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk](https://web.archive.org/web/20090106132939/http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk)

K: [kenrockwell.com](https://kenrockwell.com)

L: [listentotaxman.com](https://listentotaxman.com)

M: [marcroberts.info](https://marcroberts.info)

N: [news.bbc.co.uk](https://news.bbc.co.uk)

O: [ofcom.org.uk](https://ofcom.org.uk)

P: [petitions.number10.gov.uk](https://web.archive.org/web/20091124152040/http://petitions.number10.gov.uk)

Q: [quirksmode.org](https://quirksmode.org)

R: [rubyonrails.org](https://rubyonrails.org)

S: [stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com)

T: [twitter.com](https://twitter.com)

U: [uk.rottentomatoes.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20091210041249/http://uk.rottentomatoes.com)

V: [video.google.com](https://video.google.com)

W: [wwtdd.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20100105122724/http://wwtdd.com)

X: [xbox.com](https://xbox.com)

Y: [youtube.com](https://youtube.com)

Z: [zefrank.com](http://zefrank.com)

I clearly don’t visit many sites beginning with O or K as both of these I was only looking at today briefly, but the rest are places I go fairly regularly