NATIONS ACCESSING THE GUMBO PAGES


Okay, okay, gimme a break. I may have been on the Net for several years, I know we're all supposed to be blasé about the World Wide Web by now ... but I'm just a New Orleanian kid from the Ninth Ward who rarely set foot outside of Louisiana (and never outside of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida) until I was 20. I'm still jazzed by the fact that people from all over the world are reading my stuff.

I'll show you a list of all the places where these folks are, but first ...

Congratulations to SRI LANKA!

Sri Lanka was the 100th nation to access The Gumbo Pages, on January 18, 1997, at 5:07p.m., Pacific Standard time (or 19 January, 1997, 0107 hours Universal Coordinated Time).

If the Mr. Jayanatha Dhanapala, the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States, would please contact me at (e-mail chuck), I will arrange for him to receive, on behalf of his nation, a fabulous prize!

Now, here are the 142 nations, territories and lands whose fair citizens have been accessing this site and reading my stuff, according to my access reports:

Algeria, Andorra, Anguilla, Antarctica (McMurdo Station, U.S. Antarctic Program), Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, The Cayman Islands, Chile, The People's Republic of China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Dominica, The Dominican Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, The Färoe Islands, The Falkland Islands, Finland, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, The Republic of Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guam (yeah, yeah, I know Guam's not a country, but it has its own national top-level domain), Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, The Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Republic of Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Morocco, Namibia, The Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, New Zealand, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Republic of China), Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uganda, The United Arab Emirates, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, The United States of America, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Yemen, The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Zambia and Zimbabwe.

And of course, from oodles and oodles of domains from within .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net and .org, and even some from .int ("International Top Level Domain", like intelsat.int) and the ancient .ARPA domain.

Laugh at me if you want, but I'm pleased by this. It convinces me that despite the presence of all the crap, all the ads, all the loonies, the World Wide Web is still a Good Thing.

 

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Chuck Taggart   (e-mail chuck)