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Last page of the internet.

11 points by agodoy 14y ago

Xcelerate 14y ago
Quoted from KnowYourMeme (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet): Wow, this is so cool! I own www.1112.net and used to own www.wackycreations.com. I put the last page of the Internet online however the idea was not mine. I was working at UUNET at the time and had received the joke over email. It was worded differently, it was: “Attention: you have reached the very last page of the internet, now turn off your computer”. I loved the joke, but wanted to spruce it up a little bit. I changed it to: “Attention: You have reached the very last page of the Internet. We hope you have enjoyed your browsing. Now turn off your computer and go outside and play.” I then posted it up on www.1112.net/lastpage.html (and it was also the 404 page). When I left UUNET I emailed a link to my lastpage site to UUNETs darknet mail list, making mention that there was no longer a point to working here anymore. It is likely that the tech savvy UUNET’ers helped lastpage go viral well before the phrase viral was coined. The site got an amazing number of hits with one month grossing over 8 million hits. I had to upgrade my server to a dedicated server and at one point I even tried putting adds on it to recoup some of my lost $$. The adds received a lot of complaints and didn’t make enough money to pay for the server so I removed them… A true last page has no links. I registered 1112.net in 1998 and left UUNET in 2001. I will try to figure out when exactly I posted my “lastpage” online and reply back here when I figure that out. Thanks! <>Darin
- Xcelerate 14y ago
  Holy cow, does someone have a grudge against me? I never get downvoted, and in the past few days, most of my posts have been getting a single downvote shortly after I make them (and then other people vote them back up). This post is entirely relevant to the subject because it's the authors explanation of why the site exists as well as its niche of internet history dating back to 1998. I don't see how I could possibly make a more pertinent post to the topic on hand. EDIT: Someone voted it back up, but I'm still curious who the person with the grudge is (and why?).
  - michaelhoffman 14y ago
    I didn't downvote, but if you can still edit this comment, I would suggest restoring the original formatting of the comment, and adding a link to its source, http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet
Aardwolf 14y ago
Shouldn't the last page of the internet be zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.zw?

11 points by agodoy 14y ago

Quoted from KnowYourMeme (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet): Wow, this is so cool! I own www.1112.net and used to own www.wackycreations.com. I put the last page of the Internet online however the idea was not mine. I was working at UUNET at the time and had received the joke over email. It was worded differently, it was: “Attention: you have reached the very last page of the internet, now turn off your computer”. I loved the joke, but wanted to spruce it up a little bit. I changed it to: “Attention: You have reached the very last page of the Internet. We hope you have enjoyed your browsing. Now turn off your computer and go outside and play.” I then posted it up on www.1112.net/lastpage.html (and it was also the 404 page). When I left UUNET I emailed a link to my lastpage site to UUNETs darknet mail list, making mention that there was no longer a point to working here anymore. It is likely that the tech savvy UUNET’ers helped lastpage go viral well before the phrase viral was coined. The site got an amazing number of hits with one month grossing over 8 million hits. I had to upgrade my server to a dedicated server and at one point I even tried putting adds on it to recoup some of my lost $$. The adds received a lot of complaints and didn’t make enough money to pay for the server so I removed them… A true last page has no links. I registered 1112.net in 1998 and left UUNET in 2001. I will try to figure out when exactly I posted my “lastpage” online and reply back here when I figure that out. Thanks! <>Darin

Xcelerate 14y ago
Holy cow, does someone have a grudge against me? I never get downvoted, and in the past few days, most of my posts have been getting a single downvote shortly after I make them (and then other people vote them back up). This post is entirely relevant to the subject because it's the authors explanation of why the site exists as well as its niche of internet history dating back to 1998. I don't see how I could possibly make a more pertinent post to the topic on hand. EDIT: Someone voted it back up, but I'm still curious who the person with the grudge is (and why?).
- michaelhoffman 14y ago
  I didn't downvote, but if you can still edit this comment, I would suggest restoring the original formatting of the comment, and adding a link to its source, http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-last-page-of-the-internet

Aardwolf 14y ago

Shouldn't the last page of the internet be zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.zw?