• Henri Sitwell (unregistered)

    frist

    frist frist for me

  • John Marr (unregistered) in reply to Henri Sitwell

    Ha, well at least I'll be the second one to comment!

    Captcha: oppeto 1.I go to meet; I encounter 2.I perish (encounter death)

    You will not kill me this day Captcha!

  • (cs)

    Hi. Extremely-late third post?

    (I came across this page via the random article button. I don't even read VSM, though hey, free extra tdwtf! I didn't even see any evidence that there was a secret page hidden on that article, though. But then, I've never been that great at puzzles like that.)

  • RobvanG (unregistered)

    Quite easy: I tried to find the first article on the site with a little bit of url manipulation (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/2000/5/default.aspx) and it just gave me this link...

  • Mr Happy (unregistered)

    A bit late I guess, but I just got here w/ Random Article :-)

  • S (unregistered)

    Was trying to find the first article also, set the year to 1998 and started paging through...

  • ... (unregistered)

    I may be late... But after reading about this. I just entered DevDisaters in the searchbox. And here i am!

  • ... (unregistered) in reply to ...

    The WTF is that you can just search, no need for those hard/long methods!

  • Zach (unregistered) in reply to Mr Happy

    Me too

  • ozzie (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    Hi. Extremely-late third post?

    (I came across this page via the random article button. I don't even read VSM, though hey, free extra tdwtf! I didn't even see any evidence that there was a secret page hidden on that article, though. But then, I've never been that great at puzzles like that.)

    I also found this page via the random article button, but I took up the challenge and worked it out; there certainly is a secret link in the article.

    Hint: It's somewhere in the example subject given in the article ;)

  • (cs)

    I didn’t read the original article, but I found the secret link on the repost http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Tale-of-the-Cryptic-Encoding.aspx.

    I guess that the compressed data was intentionally slightly damaged so less people would figure it out ;-)

  • (cs)

    Piece of cake: remove the extra spaces in the base64 string, then:

    echo "H4sIAJ4qnU0AA4vML1VIyy/NS1EoyUhVCE5NLkotUQgN8lFUyCgpKbDS10/KLNHLqdRPyw3LcXLjAgDGBcb9LwAA" | base64 -d - | gzip -cd
  • Raman (unregistered)

    Came here starting from 1st article

  • dsjbirch (unregistered)

    Got here by copy pasting code from http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Tale-of-the-Cryptic-Encoding.aspx.

  • Crikey (unregistered)

    O boy am I late

  • DQ (unregistered) in reply to Crikey

    Not as late as me :)

  • borism (unregistered)

    later still ;)

    random article... aren't the odds small enough to warrant a dedicated price? after all, finding this page more than a decade after publication.. i must be incredibly lucky or a very big fan

  • Gearhead (unregistered)

    I got here from https://thedailywtf.com/articles/My-Dearest-Amy

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