TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002 - eviltoast

In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia’s public web site. Intentia claims that the report was “not available through normal channels,” according to AP. (Also see Financial Times and CNET News.com reports.) DES

  • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those “preview of the day” things with a date or iterator in the URL.

    I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw http errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn…

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Nothing can stand between a horny teenager and his porn.

      PS How did you get the monospace username display? How do I get the same? Can we do this for any font?

      • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can set a displayed name in your profile and you can use Unicode characters for it. I use an Android app called “Stylish Text” for conversion but I am sure there are countless other options out there.