Enlightenment!~ That’s exactly what this site is meant to do!!
w w w . h o w s t u f f w o r k s . c o m
HOW I FOUND THIS SITE?
We had a professor for the subject of CO (Computer Organisation) whose lectures were a on-off slumber drill. I’d wake up in certain intervals either to answer my Roll call (Hey! Attendance really mattered coz I had run out of dummy family representative to come to my help in case of the defaulter list!!) and sometimes because the professor wud end up triggering a debate which the smarties carried on just to escape his meaningless lectures on RAm & ROM.
I always wondered why he took the pains to walk into the class and read his notes to us!! Well, there’s just one thing that stopped me from cursing this professor. it was this site :) How?? Well, that’s coz when confronted with questions about a topic that he was trying to dictate about, the professor simply wrote down http://www.howstuffworks.com on the board and said in a cool tone, ’’See for urself!’’ Curiosity lured me to this site and since then this site has been my saviour from a 1000 and 1 questions I come up with about anything and everything.
ABOUT THIS SITE:
This is a dynamic site and can be used by you if you fall in even one of the following categories:
Student (any age group...I mean it)
Professor (now I know where my CO professor got those printed notes from)
A Vendor or buyer
Just an inquisitive soul (like me :D )
The Look:
The homepage shows their Mascot which is a grinning face with a globe housed in his head. This is a self-explanatory logo for this site and I vouch for that from my experiences with it. It is a very user-friendly site. The best part is usually the homepage which is always update with links to loads of information on the most current STUFF that’s Hot & Happening.
Anything from a childish question of-
How grass grows? to a devilish mind’s curiosity on How Lock-picking works?;) to the latest one being How Tsunamis Work? to a technial computer geeks query on How webservers work?.
There is a space at the top right corner of this homepage that provides us the space to ask our own questions & Search howstuffworks & the WEB for. Type in your question and Voila! U have a series of links related to ur question. Till date this site has never failed me to get me loads and loads of information to satisfy my quest for answers!
The homepage has a dynamic link that shows ’’TODAY’s Stuff’’ & ’’Coming Up Stuff’’ in this site.
Apart from this, there are links which tell you that the site stores the informations according to categories:
^Computer Stuff
^Auto Stuff
^Electronics Stuff
^Science Stuff
^Home Stuff
^Stuffo
^Health Stuff
^Money Stuff
^Travel Stuff
^People Stuff
Stuffo is for anything and everything from the AI (Artificial Intelligence) & gaming World
If u can’t think of a question initially then, just click on this site and one glance through this page and I’m sure U’ll find yourself clicking on at least one link coz U suddenly find that U desperately want to know the answer!!
THE INFORMATION PROVIDED:
High Quality--> Complete--> Lucid language--> extensively explained--> easy to understand--> wonderful illutrations--> very useful links!
That just sums up the characteristics of each page that U click on this site for your answers. The illustrations may be 2-D or 3-D, depending on the necessity to drive home the point.
They have an option to provide the same information in Printable Version (minus the animated images), to subscribe Newsletters for that particular STUFF, and, even SHOP or COMPARE PRICES of that stuff.
For EXAMPLE:
If the STUFF that I’m looking for is: How Hair Replacement Works? then the Table of Contents shows links to pages for knowing:
? Introduction to How Hair Replacement Works
? How Does Hair Grow?
? What Causes Hair Loss?
? Drugs and Ointments
? Wigs and Hairpieces
? Am I a Good Candidate for Hair Replacement?
? Hair Transplantation
? Other Surgical Techniques
? How Do I Find the Right Surgeon?
? How Do I Know Which Procedure is Right for Me?
? New Research
? Lots More Information
? Shop or Compare Prices
All this and more along with some cool illustrations!
This is just one of the 1000000s of examples. U think I’m exaggerating? Then, see for yourself coz I’m still to exhaust this site of all the How questions and each time I just find that there are more questions here than I could ever imagine!!
At the end of it The reader can even RATE THE ARTICLE!
So, got questions? Wanna know some answers? Ask me How??? lol! No! Go ask http://www. HOWSTUFFWORKS.com