Ask Jeeves was a remnant from a bygone time of static html 4.0 pages, <blink> tags, and view counters. It was a simpler time, perhaps even a better time. But I’m glad this memory didn’t have to get tarnished, with the mid 2020s tech du jour.
I used a Visitor Counter to beat a business rival who had stolen my business (long story, but he was a crook). Since it was a small town, and this guy was well connected, with a brother on the police force, so I got nowhere with real justice. This was this guy’s business model - invest in a business, then steal it.
So I told my story on my web page, and put a hit counter at the bottom. First, he threatened to sue me, and I told him to bring it on, I had written documentation and many live witnesses who would verify every statement I made.
The page went locally viral, and people all over town told me they read the page. As the hit counter imcreased, his business decreased. He got increasingly desperate as his business crashed, begged me to take it down, which I refused, and eventually he closed the business.
I re-branded under another name, and continue to operate that business to this day.
*pleasantly surprised.
Ask Jeeves was a remnant from a bygone time of static html 4.0 pages, <blink> tags, and view counters. It was a simpler time, perhaps even a better time. But I’m glad this memory didn’t have to get tarnished, with the mid 2020s tech du jour.
I used a Visitor Counter to beat a business rival who had stolen my business (long story, but he was a crook). Since it was a small town, and this guy was well connected, with a brother on the police force, so I got nowhere with real justice. This was this guy’s business model - invest in a business, then steal it.
So I told my story on my web page, and put a hit counter at the bottom. First, he threatened to sue me, and I told him to bring it on, I had written documentation and many live witnesses who would verify every statement I made.
The page went locally viral, and people all over town told me they read the page. As the hit counter imcreased, his business decreased. He got increasingly desperate as his business crashed, begged me to take it down, which I refused, and eventually he closed the business.
I re-branded under another name, and continue to operate that business to this day.