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Net Gains (Aug 27, 97)
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The Subcontinent Homepage (www.subcontinent.com) is maintained
by SAPRA (Security And Political Risk Analysis) India - a Delhi
based, private sector, independent think tank which focuses on
peace/conflict studies, political & business risk, terrorism
and security related issues pertinent to the South Asian context.
SAPRA India looks at all of these from an "Indian point"
of view. The board of advisors is a who's who list that would
fill up the rest of the column, so that's your homework - additional
reading from the site if you're interested.
You can browse through their monthly bulletin, or odds and ends
from the Indian subcontinent. Under ordinary circumstances, this
page would have been yet another Indian site that would have generated
an average level of interest, but not in this case. We all know
very well how our adrenaline works overtime each time India meets
Pakistan in one field or the other - in our time, usually the
cricket field. Subcontinent.com talks about the time India and
Pakistan met on killing fields - more specifically the 1971 India
- Pakistan war.
Over the last few weeks, I've got email from all over the world,
telling me to visit this site. The publicity about the site spreads
via the pyramid effect - X tells ten friends, each of them tell
10 others, and it spreads on, each spreading the message with
missionary fervor. As a result, the 1971 War site had to be suspended
because of the unprecedented number of hits it received on 26th
and 27th June 1997. Since their web hosting service limited the
amount of data transferred (pages seen) to 2 GB, they had to pay
a lot of moolah when they crossed the limit. But support
quickly came from different quarters and they managed to put the
war pages on four servers. Visitors to the site now get automatically
redirected to one of the four servers - effectively dividing the
load on the servers.
The 1971 war site is divided into eight sections, featuring exclusive
archival photographs of the war and interviews with Indian military
officers who actually took part in the war. The site is best viewed
with a Java and JavaScript enabled browser.
From a dead serious site to a really hilarious and frighteningly
addictive site, sent in by a Net Gains reader - Subu. !sdrawkcaB
(http://smeg.com/backwards/) is one web page that gets things
backwards ! This page allows you to enter the URL of any page
on the Internet and in a matter of seconds, it automatically gives
you the page - with the text and images all reversed. I've since
seen the backwards versions of popular pages - like Yahoo! CNN,
and my own home page! The results are frightening if you don't
know that this is just a prank - once you know that, it's asli
mazza ! Any links you follow on the backwards version of a
hompage will take you to a backwards version of that link too.
However, if you do get tired and would like to visit the real
thing you can just click on the "egaP laeR" link at
the bottom of each backwards page.
!lahC ,neht keew txen llit - tuo etis siht yrt dna oG. (Go and
try this site out - till next week then, chal !)
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