Slightly OT about urls

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/15/2012 12:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>> This all sounds so confusing! But I think I've actally been to a site
>> like that once! It was "based" out of China....and no matter WHAT link
>> you clicked on, you'd go to a separate page that had NO way to hit the
>> "Back" button on your browser!.....How is that even POSSIBLE!?
>
> Back in the Bad Old Days, I had a page on my site that claimed to be a 
> dead end on the Internet.  There were no links on it, hitting the Back 
> button just reloaded it and your history was blank.
>
> How did I do it?  Easy: the link to it went through eleven redirects 
> with blank names, because in those days your history only showed your 
> last ten pages.  The Back button just reloaded a redirect, and 
> clicking on any of the blank lines in your history just lead back to 
> the dead end.  Then, mirable dictu, Intersnot Exploder Did The Right 
> Thing so that using the Back button skipped over any redirects, and 
> about a year later, Nutscrape copied them and the page stopped 
> working.  Still, it was amusing while it lasted.
>
> No, that probably doesn't answer your question, but I thought you 
> might find it interesting.  Besides, it's my birthday today so you 
> have to humor me on things like this even if you don't want to. How 
> old am I? Well, if you write out my new age in hex, I appear to be the 
> same age as Jack Benny.
Well then first things first Happy Birthday To You Sir!....I apologize 
for responding so late to this, but I've been on a whirlwind of a month 
so far,...car repairs....car rental....the birthday of my 
Now-Twelve-Year-Old-Son-Who's-Not-A-Kid-Anymore-So-I-Should-Treat-Him-More-Like-A-Teen! 
As for the web page redirecting thing, out of my own curious mind I'm 
thinking if that ability has been done away with permanently.....how 
many times do I go to a web-site and then something else 
appears?....wouldn't think this kind of thing would still be 
around.....Enjoy your Birthday.......Jack Benny huh?.....I actually 
remember watching that show as a kid....and I was born in the 70's!...LoL!


EGO II