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I love a light hearted thing every now and then, and this tickles me very much!

Reminds me of a "user locator" website I once saw. It claimed to use advanced algorithms to locate the person using the website, so when you clicked go it spent a while printing various "reticulating splines" type technobabble before finally showing a picture of a big finger pointing at the user with big H1 text saying "You are right there".



I like these one off fun sites. Sort of like how 'zombo.com' was making fun of the .com stuff . Unfortunately that one will be done as flash goes away.


Luckily, flash isn't needed any more: https://html5zombo.com/

We should have always known, as anything is possible at ZomboCom.


This is what the internet was supposed to be. Well, not totally that's all it was supposed to be. But random websites that people put together just because. I'm sure they learned something by doing it, so it wasn't a total waste for them. And now we all get a bit of levity in our day.


I need this! Does it still exist?


That was the original GPS application on the palm pilot. Just put a big X on the screen, with "You are here" underneath it.


This sounds ingenious and cool.




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