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Saturday, January 29, 2005

elgooG

elgooG. Think about it. Read it out loud. The elfen folk out there would have already noticed that it's actually Google spelt backwards. So what?
Thanks to communism in China, google was a banned website that was blocked from the chinese public as it contained information they shouldn't be exposed to (read: contained links to websites that had the truth about communism).
So, what do the clever people that live on the internet do? they make a Google mirror, call it elgooG and LITERALLY mirror the site there (in other words everything is wrong way round, but fully functional!). This ofcourse bypassed the chinese proxies and gave our fellow chinamen the chance to elgooG whatever they needed!
Ofcourse this is now not necessary as Google has been openned up there, but still for all it's worth it was a great idea. The original elgooG still exists, just point your browsers here.

Till later, be safe

7 comments:

X-Cat said...

GOOGLE = ELGOOG
That is so cool. Freedom will always find a way, eh?

A. Damluji said...

KEWL with a Kapital K!
hmmm... nice list there!
sorry for the Tag!
see ya later.

SoB said...

What's even cooler is that you can set the original google to many different languages. Nothing so special there, but hidden between the list of official languages, are some really fun gems, to name a few

Elmer Fudd
Klingon
Hacker

Just check the preferences :)

A. Damluji said...

Dude how u doin?
y.day got a call from Omar, maybe tomorrow we ride..
hmmm!
oh gimme some congrats cuz I got ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, NEVER OUTGUNNED on Cd just now!
I know I know but I like the feel of Cds more than the Virtuality of Mp3's!

Inshallah I'll be getting the Chems soon too!
salam!

A. Damluji said...

Hey there..
Got a request:
if you can, can you please send me Galvanize on my email?
in mp3 form pls?
oh didnt get to see Omar 2day as well, overslept!
He must think I'm an idiot by now!

cheers and see ya.

SoB said...

Just galvanize the song? or the whole album (push the button)?
I'll email you the galvanize track now, let's hope your email can handle big attachments
update me if you get it
ps: my bro was wondering where you were......

A. Damluji said...

Sorry.. Had to stay with mother as she can't see her way around the place..
hmmm.. my mail can handle large letters but there's a problem with the attachment, maybe cuz its larger than 10MB? hmmm.. lemme check again!
anyways thank you and all hail the SoB!
I'll figure it out!