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
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