$ cat WEBSITE_STATUS.txt +--------------------------------------------------+ | DOMAIN: bracherweb.ch | | AGE: ~27 years (registered circa 1998) | | STATUS: ##################.. 92% retired | | CONTENT: NULL | | REASON: see below | +--------------------------------------------------+ $ ./explain_absence.sh # Possible explanations, evaluated in order of probability: [0.03%] The website was eaten by a grue. [0.41%] DNS propagation is still in progress since 2003. [2.10%] Schrödinger's website: exists and doesn't, simultaneously. [4.20%] The developer got distracted upgrading DSM 6 → 7. [93.26%] There is simply nothing here. The domain lives on for other reasons. # Conclusion: this is not a bug. This is a feature. # (All the best domains have phases of dignified emptiness.)
$ find / -name "interesting_content" 2>/dev/null find: /proc: Permission denied find: /sys: Permission denied /var/www/somewhere_else/lehmtanz # Interesting. Let's see what's there. $ open https://www.lehmtanz.ch ✓ Opening in browser... (ceramics. fire. earth. much better than an empty domain.) $
> CLASSIFIED ACCESS GRANTED
> Loading secret_message.txt...
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things,
and keeping a 29-year-old domain active."
— Phil Karlton (amended)
cache invalidation, naming things,
and keeping a 29-year-old domain active."
— Phil Karlton (amended)
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