Don’t Click It

Way back in the day when I had a PC desktop, I broke my mouse. Well, the mouse itself wasn’t broken, but I could no longer left-click on anything since I had broken the clicker¹. While keyboard shortcuts are useful, they can’t replace every function that is available with the click of a mouse, and so I had to go into the computer store and get a new mouse so I could happily click away at my computer.

Don’t Click It is a website that has an entirely click-free interface. It’s set up to explore the concept of having to click to get to a new page on a website, and instead of clicking on a link, you only need to hover your mouse over the link to be taken to the new link. There is some nifty stuff abut the history of clicking online, as well as site statistics² about visitors that click on Don’t Click It.

If I had known that Don’t Click It had existed when my mouse died, then I could have browsed at least one website with my dead mouse clicker!

1. I am sure there are more technical terms for my story of the broken mouse clicker, but I’ve no idea what they are! [↩]
2. After a few minutes of surfing at Don’t Click It, a box appears asking you whether or not you miss the clicking interface [↩]

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.