Writing without Spaces

Last October I wrote,

Now, interestingly, in this age of the Internet we are back to where we were three or four thousand years ago [that is, in the history of writing, before spaces or some other marker of word division was invented and words and even sentences were simply run together]. Web site addresses (URLs), email addresses, and screen names often run words together. This occasionally makes for interesting possibilities to misread, but it almost always means we're having to learn to read writing that once again doesn't use spaces—thus going back thousands of years in the history of writing.

Now a friend has sent me some humorous examples of the problems I had in mind when I wrote that.

All of these are companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear - and be misread:

1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is
www.whorepresents.com/

2. Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange Advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com/

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net/

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com/

5. There's the Italian Power Generator company,
www.powergenitalia.com/

6. And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales,
www.molestationnursery.com/

7. If you're looking for IP computer software, there's always
www.ipanywhere.com/

8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is
www.cummingfirst.com/

9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site,
www.speedofart.com/

I tested a couple of these links and they all appear to be genuine web sites.