This is interesting. The freer.com URL contains references to both Internet Wiretap -- a site that I run, now at wiretap.area.com,and is actually on the same server as www.rotten.com -- *and* Dilbert Hole. A veritable double header.
Wiretap dates from the pre-web, gopher days. Imagine that a gopher site today gets 5,000 hits a day! (well, it's broken right now, but will be fixed shortly.)
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For very twisted parody, you must check out the Dilbert Hole. [For adults only.] [2/8/96]
Before Lycos crawled the Web, before McDonald's had a domain name, before any sites were cool for a day, there was a simple gopher site that championed freedom of information, personal privacy, and knowledge for its own sake. Since 1992, Wiretap has housed electronic texts of all kinds, giving equal space to the Communist Manifesto and the Holy Bible, conspiracy theories, tech documents, and lawyer jokes. Now it's making a comeback - with a Webby front end that's been nipped, tucked, and HTML'd. Fortunately, though, the beauty is only skin-deep. Underneath, it's what we now call "content." [2/3/96]
It's good reading these comments on slashdot, some of them are actually quite erudite.
The strips themselves have been floating around for two years on the net in various places. We did not create them. The originals had United Media copyrights on them (bad); those were removed and replaced with disclaimers. Once this was done, we believe we're actually in the right, legally. There is of course room for disagreement.
As to those people who think we are media whoring for attention by using Dilbert Hole for attention, pshaw! It is but a tiny drop in the site's daily traffic.
Incidentally Yahoo! created a whole new category for Dilbert parodies. What are you people waiting for? Oh yeah. the attorneys. Fie I say!
Okay. Now we can concentrate on something more important, the Dilbert Hole Haiku contest.
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This is interesting. The freer.com URL contains references to both Internet Wiretap -- a site that I run, now at wiretap.area.com,and is actually on the same server as www.rotten.com -- *and* Dilbert Hole. A veritable double header.
Wiretap dates from the pre-web, gopher days. Imagine that a gopher site today gets 5,000 hits a day! (well, it's broken right now, but will be fixed shortly.)
staff@rotten.com
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For very twisted parody, you must check out the Dilbert Hole. [For adults only.] [2/8/96]
Before Lycos crawled the Web, before McDonald's had a domain name, before any sites were cool for a day, there was a simple gopher site that championed freedom of
information, personal privacy, and knowledge for its own sake. Since 1992, Wiretap has housed electronic texts of all kinds, giving equal space to the Communist Manifesto
and the Holy Bible, conspiracy theories, tech documents, and lawyer jokes. Now it's making a comeback - with a Webby front end that's been nipped, tucked, and HTML'd.
Fortunately, though, the beauty is only skin-deep. Underneath, it's what we now call "content." [2/3/96]
> You can't even say they crossed a fine line in this case,
Peed on the line and gave it a warm sudsy enema, then?
It's good reading these comments on slashdot, some of them are actually quite erudite.
The strips themselves have been floating around for two years on the net in various places. We did not create them. The originals had United Media copyrights on them (bad); those were removed and replaced with disclaimers. Once this was done, we believe we're actually in the right, legally. There is of course room for disagreement.
As to those people who think we are media whoring for attention by using Dilbert Hole for attention, pshaw! It is but a tiny drop in the site's daily traffic.
Incidentally Yahoo! created a whole new category for Dilbert parodies. What are you people waiting for? Oh yeah. the attorneys. Fie I say!
Okay. Now we can concentrate on something more important, the Dilbert Hole Haiku contest.
staff@rotten.com