Last page of the internet.

Wow, this is so cool! I own www.1112.net and used to own www.wackycreations.com. I put the last page of the Internet online however the idea was not mine. I was working at UUNET at the time and had received the joke over email. It was worded differently, it was: “Attention: you have reached the very last page of the internet, now turn off your computer”. I loved the joke, but wanted to spruce it up a little bit. I changed it to: “Attention: You have reached the very last page of the Internet. We hope you have enjoyed your browsing. Now turn off your computer and go outside and play.”

I then posted it up on www.1112.net/lastpage.html (and it was also the 404 page). When I left UUNET I emailed a link to my lastpage site to UUNETs darknet mail list, making mention that there was no longer a point to working here anymore. It is likely that the tech savvy UUNET’ers helped lastpage go viral well before the phrase viral was coined.

The site got an amazing number of hits with one month grossing over 8 million hits. I had to upgrade my server to a dedicated server and at one point I even tried putting adds on it to recoup some of my lost $$. The adds received a lot of complaints and didn’t make enough money to pay for the server so I removed them… A true last page has no links.

I registered 1112.net in 1998 and left UUNET in 2001. I will try to figure out when exactly I posted my “lastpage” online and reply back here when I figure that out. Thanks!

<>Darin