Look, by now we're amassing 70-80% of our pages served up to web bots (Common Crawl's CCBot being the current worst offender - even worse than the Googlebot!), so they haven't really been "clicks" for YEARS. They're probably almost all definitely wasted, though. There was a quick flurry of activity from folks who were watching the counter who really wanted the coveted spot, but alas, in a bit of an upset, the visit went to .... Bingbot.
Closest on either side by a fraction of a second were Matt Tracker (-1) and David Adams (+1). If it's any consolation, David's page 100M+1st page finished rendering before the Bingbot's 100Mth page, so maybe a technical argument could be made for giving him the HECTOMEGACLICK but.....nah. That counter only runs in one direction, baby.
I threw my hat into the lottery as well and came up pretty late, relatively - I got 100M+3. Here's a screen shot to see who else was on when it happened!
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Recent millions (and how long it took to get there): 100 24 Oct 2014 15:01:03 (36:07:15:08) 99M 18 Sep 2014 07:45:55 (43:07:41:23) 98M 06 Aug 2014 00:04:32 (39:06:56:58) 97M 27 Jun 2014 17:07:34 (53:16:03:26) 96M 05 May 2014 01:04:08 (43:09:18:08) 95M 22 Mar 2014 15:46:00 (44:08:08:34) 94M 06 Feb 2014 06:37:26 (46:18:36:05) 93M 21 Dec 2013 12:01:21 (40:18:35:25) 92M 10 Nov 2013 17:25:56 (47:03:50:40) 91M 24 Sep 2013 14:35:16 (47:17:54:49) 90M 07 Aug 2013 20:40:27 (40:20:56:16)
DEKAMEGACLICKS 100 24 Oct 2014 15:01:03 90M 07 Aug 2013 20:40:27 80M 15 Jun 2012 09:45:28 70M 29 Jun 2011 01:59:37 60M 08 May 2010 15:28:31 50M 10 Nov 2008 16:29:58 40M 11 Apr 2007 14:04:53 30M 24 Oct 2005 15:49:44 20M 11 Aug 2004 11:21:35 10M 13 Jul 2003 17:0?:?? "1" 2 Jan 2002 (technically, 9 Dec 2001)
Our current Quantcast (USA) ranking as I type this:217,326
As always, we thank you for wasting your lives - sorry, investing your precious, precious time - with us.
Now, if anybody would like to buy us out, please direct all inquiries to guruzim.
This is still the only message board I visit. Nothing else quite felt right, so thanks for keeping this place going for 100,000,000 clicks and letting me post nearly 5000 times even though 4500 of those were probably terrible.
Originally posted by BigDaddyLocoThis is still the only message board I visit. Nothing else quite felt right, so thanks for keeping this place going for 100,000,000 clicks and letting me post nearly 5000 times even though 4500 of those were probably terrible.
same goes for me. This is really one of only four places I visit regularly on the internet besides my email.
We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift
So close... I saw CRZ's tweet about it earlier in the afternoon and figured I'd hang around the board and see if anyone aside from a bot got it. Oh well.
As everyone before me said, thanks for keeping this board interesting and enjoyable to read(and occasionally post on) for so long.
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