How to find websites of people who literally don’t know where they’re at

Posted on August 7, 2003 by Pete Ashton

I was looking at the GeoURL Maps which graphically show the sites that have registered their “meatspace” co-ordinates with them and I noticed quite a few scattered around the oceans. I clicked in their general area and had a look. The first one is supposed to be about 300 miles SW of Ireland but is actually the home page of a Prague-based programmer. Clicking on and it all gets very random. The only thing connecting these sites together is that they all screwed up their co-ordinates when registering on GeoURL. And for some reason I find that endlessly fascinating!

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One Response to How to find websites of people who literally don’t know where they’re at

  1. Dad says:
    August 11, 2003 at 4:13 am

    So, I checked this GeoURL thing out, particularly as I like to know where I am so that I can work out where I’m going ;-)

    I entered my zip code and saw that this puts me on the other side of the freeway (rather like living on the other side of the railroad tracks). So I tinkered a bit and finally got the coordinates for the actual block where I live. So now those ICBMs know how to eliminate me (and, by default, the rest of Houston).