We knew that (duh).

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When driving on a road that's under construction, or passing by a building that's still being built, we don't need the sign in order to tell us this. A simple glance at the building, or at the machinery at the side of the road, lets us know. So the sign isn't there in order to tell us something that our eyes can easily see. It's there so that we'll understand that somebody is responsible for the present situation, perhaps so that we'll know whom to blame for any inconvenience caused.

Under construction signs on web sites don't do this (we know whom to blame without the sign). They only tell us what's too often rather obvious. And that perhaps explains why we rarely encounter (or encountered - they're pretty much a part of the past) these signs on well-constructed, but continually changing, sites, and instead almost solely on rather lame ones.

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Go to: Another way of looking at it, or
Go to: The history of being unfinished, or
Go to: On completing a web site