A smellier internet

I think we should create a special, snotty version of the internet just for the French. Ah, but seriously, speaking of smelly, what ever happened with "smell-o-vision" type devices for the web? In the late 90's, companies were developing peripherals you could hook up to your computer that would mix different chemicals to create smells based on commands embedded in a webpage. So Burger King might make their website smell like a burger on the grill, or a porno site might smell like tuna. Then the whole dot com thing blew up, and all that stuff disappeared. Google web smell-o-vision or Digiscents, and you'll get a ton of links to articles from 1999 and 2000 about this topic. To prove I am not making this up, here is a link to an archived copy of the Digiscents site from 2000.

My webpage would smell like feet and orange juice

Comments from the original version of this posting at MySpace:

Suzy, Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 11:39 PM: EEEEEEWWW Feet and orange juice? At the same time? Yuck.

Jeremy, Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 10:16 PM: I make a comment about a porno site smelling like tuna, and you EWWW at the orange juice and feet?