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| Stephen Brooks 2002-07-09 07:15:21 | I've just noticed that well over 100 games of Browser Wars have been played in the last 24 hours. I was wondering if people were beginning to find it a bit 'crowded' or wanted me to set up several (e.g. 6) independant boards so that people could play more? "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| kruemi [Swissteam.NET] 2002-07-09 07:50:41 | I think the reason can be found on Symlink.ch in the article "Browserwars einmal anders". Yes, the Article is in german. I thought it's funny and worth to share with the people. The only comments that are interestin are, that NS 4.7x is taken as mozilla (which it is, but is irritation for some users!) bye kruemi -- Don't read this. And neither this! |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-07-09 08:09:32 | Hmm the program detects browsers by looking for various substrings of the "browser identification/user client" string supplied to my server. I'll have a go at debugging this - where's the NS4.7 download URL? "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| kruemi [Swissteam.NET] 2002-07-09 08:33:13 | The Problem seems to be, that the NS 4.7x identifies itselve as Mozilla! Nothing Netscape and so on! My Mozilla has "Mozilla/4.73 [de] (WinNT; U)" as identification-string .-( bye kruemi -- Don't read this. And neither this! |
| Pascal 2002-07-09 09:40:15 | Download Site Netscape Browsers 4.78 Older Netscape Versions ___________________________ 1: Athlon TB-C, 1.2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Erazor x², ADSL-Flatrate, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE Mainboard MSI-6380 Rev. 1 2: Pentium III, 600 MC/s, 256 MB RAM, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE |
| aZra3L 2002-08-28 13:43:54 | Traffic might even more increase, the page was named in the heise Forum. |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-08-29 01:30:11 | Heise forum? Where's that - on the same site? "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| moonshine 2002-09-01 16:12:18 | Hi Stephen, the reference to your site was made in the Heise Forum a few days ago. You can find it here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=2224845&forum_id=33048 There's about 10 comments on it...it's all in German though. But those who posted there liked your game!  Cheers from Stuttgart, moonshine |
| letype 2002-09-10 21:44:11 | www.userfriendly.org also had you as the link of today, for yesterday  |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-09-11 02:49:34 | That would probably explain why the number of games played has doubled over the last two days  You may also notice I've accepted UserFriendly's offer of a 'badge'/award picture to put on the page. I don't normally like things like that, but UserFriendly looks like a decent site from what I've seen. |
| Taysie 2002-10-31 18:01:32 | I found you on www.idontlikeyou.com a few weeeks ago, it might line up with this time, I dont know... check the archives...  Tah |
| guest 2002-11-01 03:10:22 | There is a thread about this site in the Opera Support forum as well. Regards Terje |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-01 04:27:27 | Found it. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| Austrian 2002-11-04 00:25:07 | I've noticed this site many weeks ago in a German Computer-Forum called "Spotlight". And I've also posted the link in another German Forum. And many people I know were playing the Browser War for a long time. In the morning (MET) it's not crowded at all - you have to wait quite long sometimes. P.S. It's amazing how long a time you can play this game without getting bored at all  - Congratulations, Stephen! |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-06 09:54:02 | Thanks - in fact I think a German bulletin board was where word of this first got out, so it's not surprising all your friends know about it "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| guest 2002-11-11 08:35:29 | There's a link here too http://www.technologyvault.co.uk/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.cgi?board=games&action=display&num=1036780219 |
| Hainesey 2002-11-11 14:49:56 | And that's where I got it from |
| guest 2002-11-17 17:18:01 | There is a link on Warp2Search.net as well which is where I came from |
| art 2002-11-18 16:25:26 | your page was mentioned at [H]ard|OCP, right on the front page - prepare for heavy load =) |
| DaBlacky 2002-11-19 06:05:03 | You're also on the K-Meleon forum: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?f=1&i=6037&t=6037 |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-19 09:55:34 | quote: Let's hope for the sake of my HDD space that they don't notice there's a distributed computing project here. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| i7dealer 2002-11-19 11:38:56 | This site has been linkfiltered: linkfilter Great idea, I like this site a lot. |
| SAM 2002-11-19 17:27:29 | As if you won't be able to notice, Slashdot has posted this as well.Slashback |
| Haplo 2002-11-19 17:46:15 | Dude, you think oyu have traffic now? prepare for a slashdotting. You just got mentioned in slashback  |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-19 17:51:45 | I thought it was getting crowded out there just now. Do we need more boards again? "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| sgamer 2002-11-19 18:06:20 | i dunno, but i propose an irc channel  i just opened up #browserwars on opn and slashnet just incase anyone cares, hehe.man, i'm bored. really bored.  = OWNAGE |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-19 18:27:24 | Heck, heck, HECK. Hard|O[C]P and Slashdot in one day. It's totally mad out there now. Most boards active every 4 seconds, although I checked back again and 5 are locked so at least for the players who can get in, it's not so bad. Well anyway, if there's a way for you to represent those IRC channels in URL-form, I can add a link to them at the top (near the link to this forum). It would serve as a good interim measure before I get that "shout box" feature added (and you're not the only one to ask for it - I think it's a good idea). Do you think we need more boards? (Say 16 instead of 8?) "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| sgamer 2002-11-19 18:40:18 | more boards wouldnt hurt, but i like 5 player games too i can represent them in url form, but i think irc urls only work with mIRC...although i'm not sure. irc://irc.freenode.net/#browserwars the slashnet one is a secondary channel, i just had it up incase people preferred slashnet. i think i'll just stick to the one on opn for now = OWNAGE |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-19 18:45:41 | Well I increased it a _bit_ to 12 boards right now. OK, so what do I have to write on the site in order to tell people how to find your IRC channel (I've never used it myself)? "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| sgamer 2002-11-19 19:09:36 | just say theres #browserwars on irc.freenode.net, and maybe link mIRC and X-Chat basically, to get there, just get one of those clients, then type: /server irc.freenode.net wait for the connection, then: /join #browserwars people who know irc already know this, so just saying theres a #browserwars on irc.freenode.net is good enough. = OWNAGE |
| sgamer 2002-11-19 19:11:03 | oh, and by the way, did you tinker with anything when you upped the board count? galeon and a few other browsers show like 100% wins on my screen...that's nice and all, but i'd like to obtain it legally = OWNAGE |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-19 19:12:57 | The advanced/itemised stats got reset when I was fixing another bug. I ought to take backups more often. Actually, I ought to think about taking backups in the first place.... "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| hoshie 2002-11-19 23:05:23 | quote: There were some comments as well. If you want to read them, do they should be down the page or seearch for 'browser wars'. That's A Lie, Your Honor! |
| Swiss Mozilla Fan 2002-11-20 02:01:03 | I found you through MozillaNews, they had a post today. And yes, sometimes it's really hard to play... Sometimes also I noticed that even the board was locked between IE6 and Mozilla (and the time was still not up), some Opera came in.  Weird. |
| Tom King 2002-11-23 13:33:49 | I had a look for #browserwars, but I found the channel didn't exist on the server, so when I joined I created it and was the admin. How is it you hold a channel open? |
| Geek 2003-01-14 19:18:24 | FWIW: Soecery.net has a really cool IRC setup. Rock solid, hold channels as long as the admin logs in once every 30 days and verry few channel splits (I have personally never had one, but I hear it happens). I use the valinor.sorcery.net server in Seattle, WA and never seen downtime  |
| Raztro 2003-01-16 19:14:09 | quote: haha that's my post! Victory to the K-Meleon! |
