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Endlich mal die ganze Wahrheit in ungeschönter 8-Bit Optik:
Beginner’s guide to internet forums

Die 50 besten Zitate übers Internet

In an effort to help nine year old Cody Darnell win a $50 bet made with his older cousin at their family’s thanksgiving lunch last November, the townsfolk of Springwood in North Dakota, USA have joined forces to lend assistance.

Read the whole article at http://www.cool.com.au/

Most of you will already know the Wayback Machine to search for previous versions of websites. But did you ever take the time to look at the site behind this great service?

The Internet Archive is a gigantic resource for Movies, Music, Software and Texts.

One of the gems in my opinion is the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre.

Have a look and take your time.

Photojournalist Mahir’s personal homepage became an online phenomenon, eventually claiming to hold the world record for most visits. With it’s corny photos and phrases such as “I Kiss You” and “I like to take foto-camera”, it later turned out that Mahir himself was not completely responsible for the site, but instead it was a prankster translator who had spiced up some of the details.

Check out his and some other online celibrity stories over at YesButNoButYes: On the trail of the Internet Phenomenons

My personal favorite surely is Ellen Feiss.

Ok ok, the headline is just a fake There is no upcoming Duke Nukem Forever (yet) and perhaps/possibly there will never be.

But after getting the Vaporware award in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and achieving the Vaporware Livetime Award, Duke Nukem Forever is now back on the list at first place.

Still, 3D Realms is claiming in theire Duke Nukem FAQ, that the game is still in progress (YES, off course … after beeing in production for nearly a decade ) and „done, when it’s done.“.

Hope dies last!

Now Google has it’s own free proxy waiting for you to use it inlcuding a direct translation service:

Usage of the proxy is explained in this article at O’Reillys.

You can directly access any site with this template

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com

where the first language code indicates the original and the second one the language to be translated to. Of course the translation is mostly bad, but this is a common problem.

I’ve asked myself many times, what would happen if the internet was down for more then 1 minute.

See the answer at Internet Down.

From the creators (I think ) of Woogle we also present Toogle The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.

Works best with easy words like cloud, rainbow or mona lisa

Woogle is a fun service that translates any text entered in a „picture representation“.

Try it yourself!