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Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
I'm afraid it just has.
Perhaps it'll go up again eventually. In the meantime, the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230106230031/https://gail.com/
Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.
GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL
It's actually onlinesbi.com
Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong. "You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to s…
It took me this post to make the link that, in France, "ploum ploum" means "whatever random thing" and that surely people are filling "ploum@ploum" as a random address in every web form.
Must be even worse for the ploum.com domain.
-2021, 109 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28283890
-2017, 160 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13817969
I am always happy to see this reposted, though.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't forget https://stallman.org/ if we're talking about the 90s
Tbh I'll take that over any SPA that breaks my browser default behaviour.
Would have saved millions of minor frustrations for millions of people.
Or, since they seem not to be using the root of the domain for anything but a smug FAQ, just an HTTP 302 redirect.
Previous discussions of note: -2021, 109 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28283890 -2017, 160 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13817969 I am always happy to see this reposted, though.
Hi weatherlight,
The submission "Gail.com FAQ" that you posted to Hacker News in September 2019
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20956204) looks good, but didn't get
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