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Thanks, spanky, for a whole lot of nothing.
Thanks. Its still listed in Yahoo. Unfortunately, your page was lost to history.
I'm good. How is Wisconsin?
Why not do it? Back in 1995, it was a neat good way to meet random people on teh Internets, you know, before they were all filled with scary people.
Yoda's first message is here. Yes, I actually do read them...
Quiet day, only one message.
You too.
Not much. The oldest incarnations of yikes were connected to the Internet through a dual-channel ISDN link.
Dan Hess's old Venis the Blob pages are accessible, courtesy of the Internet Archive. A quick Google search finds Venis' new home at venisproductions.com.
Sorry, there were no messages today. I feel so unloved.
Proof Caltech students aren't all that they are made out to be:
... followed by an enemy of the environment:
You
can
waste
a
lot
if
you
try
.
I will consider joining... thanks.
otter.labs.cis.pitt.edu is a lovely hostname. I know at least one otter-lover...
This whole week has been slow... once again, only a single message.
Yet another fan of the deceased Netscape Tricks page. Perhaps I should bring it back to life, now that no one uses Netscape anymore.
Looks like Randolf has a web page with berlin.snafu.de. Based on the project links, I am guessing that randolf-westphal.de is same person.
Oh great, another O.J. Simpson impersonator. Hey, O.J., your "friend" left a message last month.
Amazing, everyone else in the world is using Netscape 2.0, except Netscape themselves. No wonder the training sucked.
Perhaps I'm the weird one, but I hardly think a printer hooked up to the Internet is the strangest thing on the web.
Quite a mouth full, I only have one thing to add: I don't recall ever asking for ribbons.
I was obviously testing something, but obviously it was not as much fun as the following, which looks like the results of random garbage being sent out the serial port:
Only one message...
Indeed it is!
Bob, you have already spammed me with regards to the Bill of Rights Hotline. [ You can find a recording of the hotline on The Cranky Media Guy's media page. ]
The other message is from a shy type at Apple:
Andy A. Lee sent several messages with long lines, unfortunately, they wrapped without a newline. If you look closely, you can make out most of the overlapped words...
Sorry Andy, I'm still using yikes.com, and will keep using it. I do like your web browser, OmniWeb/2.0-beta-3b OWF/1.0, few people have used NeXTSTEP.
Another message from IBM's Almaden Research Center. At least s/he's more verbose today...
First, a bad joke from a John Doe...
Next, and ad for the Night City BBS:
I strongly doubt that Twinkies only have a four day shelf life.
Sorry Tad, the printer ate half of your message.
No messages for today. That is not an authoritative statement that there are none, just that I can't find any...
*yawn*
Today's messages are coming in two batches, split by author, not time. This is part one, everyone who was too shy to provide their name.
At least they had something to say... The next three John Does were mutes:
Yes, you are correct. Most people say hello world! (it is the default message), or doubt the functionality of my printer.
Wow, Bob, you certainly are NIFTY, but I don't think you really needed to tell me that three times in a row.
You are probably the first people to consider a Macintosh II fast enough! On such old hardware, each CGI takes over two seconds to execute, mostly due to the overhead in sending an AppleEvent. The record number of hits served from that incarnation of Yikes was over approximately 30,000, with over half the hits coming from Japan.
Timo provided the first message of the day:
Next, the anonymous visitor from Sweden asks the all important question...
No, apparently not. At least he said more than the next two visitors, from sbc.com and earthlink.net:
Sorry, the link no longer appears to work...
Wow... The trolls were active, and roaming the 'Net, back in 1996. At least the next troll had some etiquette:
I hope not everyone at
Like, totally, so are you.
Feared!
The test was successful.
It is. I was in Sweden for New Years, in 2006.
Why?
Quiet types.
I agree.
pud wacker (n): A dislikeable person; a jerk. (Literally, a masturbating male.)
OK!!!
Sorry, I was sending text directly to the serial port. The driver was included in the MacOS for a very long time, easily until OS 9, and was available as a separate download.
Not shown is a blank message from www-12-222.gnn.com using Mozilla/2.0b3 (Win16; I). The only interesting thing about the next message is the host, thinkbank.com, located in Berkeley, not far from where this printer was located at the time.
So many people with so little to say.
Glad someone thinks so!
Hello Michell!
I should. How does a koi cam sound?
Thanks, I always like earning an A, however, I must ask, why did I not earn an A+?
Ah, the day would not be complete with at least one troll. The lovely "Meoff, Jack" sent the following troll infested message:
Not shown are is John Doe from tar151.why.net who had as little to say as John Doe from 206.148.240.8, nothing.
I feel so unloved. Another day goes by without a single message.
Go visit the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute at CEntre for Research and Technology - Hellas.
Germans must be shy.
I don't agree, but at least you said more than the next guy:
Maybe you need to look harder!
Florida must be nice, at least when the hurricanes aren't around.
I ph33r j00!
The John Does not shown came from 205.199.198.198 and copeland.qualcomm.com.
The first message is from a "cute dragon:"
The next message is from Jim Banta at Northern Kentucky University.
By my math, Valerie Kolko is one year older than I. She seemed to have some fun with the back and submit buttons...
And, the final message on this leap day came from Internet Alaska Support:
Not shown was today's John Doe from server1.asua.arizona.edu.
