[time-nuts] TVB's new fame!

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Nov 19 04:03:42 EST 2004


In message <002601c4ce05$c64e6000$c363f204 at computer>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:
>> Our own Tom Van Baak made Slashdot today, or at least his chess set did:
>>
>>
>http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/1952245&tid=159&tid=133&ti
>d=10
>>
>> Congrats, Tom!
>>
>> Hope your site survived the Slashdotting!
>>
>> John
>
>I'm still not sure how the whole thing started but, yes,
>a lot of people found and enjoyed the BNC chess page
>this week. The whole episode is an interesting lesson
>on the tides of web surfing. My website URL log counts
>are normally 2k to 6k a day. Monday it was 10k, then
>on Tuesday 28k, Wednesday 92k, and today (when
>Slashdot picked it up) 804k.

Just be happy they didn't notice Bills wristwatch at the same time,
they would have gone totally bezerk then :-)

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