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Old July 3rd, 2007, 10:51 AM
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I had three emails in my inbox when I got up this morning, all from members of the mod crew, which is what spawned me to look into it. Afterall, the site was not redirecting for me, so had no one said anything, I would have not known.
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Old July 3rd, 2007, 05:53 PM
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Hehe I was wondering what was going on.
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Well, a friend of mine was on the server last night, I was letting him test something he was doing on his own and he thought he would make a joke and redirect my IP address to Apple's website. Well, he wrote the mod_rewrite wrong and instead of sending me to Apple's website, he sent everyone else and I was greeted with the regular website.

Took me a little bit to figure out what was going on, but the log files showed that indeed people where not insane and it was redirecting traffic.

Anyhow, all is good and I can now laugh about it.
Should that be "ex-friend"? :-)
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Old July 3rd, 2007, 11:56 PM
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It could have been worse: At least he didn't set it to microsoft.com.
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Old July 4th, 2007, 07:36 AM
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It could have been worse: At least he didn't set it to microsoft.com.
Or tubgirl.

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Although I don't know if either of those would be worse than Microsoft.com.
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Wow, i was panicking about this, i thought it was the end of this wonderful place. Your friend got me good scott
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Old July 4th, 2007, 11:48 AM
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Well, a friend of mine was on the server last night, I was letting him test something he was doing on his own and he thought he would make a joke and redirect my IP address to Apple's website. Well, he wrote the mod_rewrite wrong and instead of sending me to Apple's website, he sent everyone else and I was greeted with the regular website.

Took me a little bit to figure out what was going on, but the log files showed that indeed people where not insane and it was redirecting traffic.

Anyhow, all is good and I can now laugh about it.
Well I thought you finally became a millionaire Scott by selling the domain to Apple. Hey maybe that would be a possibility.
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Well I thought you finally became a millionaire Scott by selling the domain to Apple. Hey maybe that would be a possibility.
It seemed plausible after iPhone.com was sold to apple for a 7-figure sum
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