ActiveTourist Visits Rantville

Noticed someone from ActiveTourist was reading my blog post about their dumb as dirt crawler.

Host: activetourist.free-online.co.uk
IP Address : 80.229.187.190
Country : United Kingdom
Region : England
City: London
ISP : Plusnet-dial-adsl

So being curious I checked the address of the ActiveTourist server:

PING www.activetourist.com (80.229.187.190)

What a shock, it's the same IP address, so they're running this server our of their closet.

8-bit Internet Time Machine

Here's the oddest fucking user agent I think I've ever seen:

"IE/6.01 (CP/M; 8-bit)"

Are you shitting me?

Someone is still using an 8-bit computer with CP/M and accessing the Internet with this shit?

Come on, nostalgia is one thing, but that's just fucking stupid, you must be pulling my leg.

So I did some checking to see what other occurances of similar shit has been blocked:

212.69.245.89 "Nutscrape/9.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)"
212.197.17.177 "IE/6.01 (CP/M; 8-bit)"
82.159.197.251 "Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)"
195.228.115.1 "Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)"
84.56.234.101 Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
82.69.177.201 Nutscrape/9.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
212.219.82.36 Nutscrape/9.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)

Either this is someone's idea of a lame joke or there are some seriously twisted nerds out there that just won't let go of the past.