[ale] Silly browser strings

[Jay Lozier]

On 02/09/2012 11:29 AM, William Bagwell wrote:
> Potentially amusing little distraction from the monthly Vi verses Emacs
> thread for those who need one.
>
> Registered a domain name over a year ago (unrelated to Linux.) and had to
> settle for my second choice at the time because my first pick was taken.
> Unavailable, but no actual site so I assumed squatters... Last week I was
> registering a name for something else and thought to check again for my
> first choice from back then. Success! Set up a tiny welcome page and
> started monitoring.
>
> Someone, (or some bot?) apparently had a PHPBB2 message board up for
> awhile because I'm seeing quite a bit of traffic looking for it. Most
> amusing so far were 11 hits, from 11 different IPs, in a three minute
> period and all 11 claiming to be Win 98.
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)"
Windows 98, when did M$ stop support for it? If it truly is Win98, I 
wonder how infested it is.
>
> Wayback machine never indexed the site, so I have no clue what was once
> there. Somehow I do not believe it was an antique computer club, but who
> knows;-)


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Jay Lozier
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