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Advertising on ticalc.org
Posted by Chris on 1 April 2001, 02:00 GMT
Although our policy always has been to avoid putting advertisements on the site, we were recently forced to decide between closing ticalc.org or finding immediate ways to cover what has become a very large monthly bandwidth bill. The site's level of traffic has attracted the interest of some large advertisers, and we are pleased to announce that we will be able to continue operating the site with their generous sponsorship in the form of banner advertisements at the top and bottom of our front page. We realize our visitors have come to appreciate the lack of ads on our pages, while nearly every other large web site blinks and flashes like a two-dimensional Las Vegas. We hope to return to an ad-free policy in the near future once we have secured alternative sources of funding. But for the time being, we plan to use our banner ads to benefit the community as well. In addition to commercial banners, we will also be accepting banners advertising other TI-related web sites and displaying these in our ad rotation at the bottom of the home page. If you would like to participate, please send your site's banner as a static or animated GIF file (dimensions 468x60, under 30k please) along with your site's URL to ads@ticalc.org. We hope this will make the presence of banners advantageous for both the site and for you, our visitors. Thank you for your understanding. Update (Chris): Of course we're kidding. Our regular visitors should know better than to believe anything we post on 1 April. If you missed the gag, here are the banners we concocted for the event: 
 Incidentally, the TI-81 web site is not fabricated, as some have insinuated. Our apologies to the author; it's nothing personal. :) We also received at least one earnest banner submission for a TI web site. Since we feel bad having the sender spend his time for nothing, here's a free plug.  Update (Eric): The newsletter, which was encoded in ROT13, can be read (in English) here. Update (Henrik): Don't forget to take the survey and tell us if you fell for it or not.
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If this was an April fools day joke...
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Jimmy Pardey 
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I would rather pay a fee for this site than see ads for HP calculators.
I have a feeling that this is a joke, HP would probably know not to advertise on a site only for TI calculators.
TI might be funding this site, as this talks about TI calculators, holds poles on TI calculators (enableing them to make better calculators), shows program examples, and TI donsen't have to make as many DEV tools.
I think I have gone off on a bit of a tangent.
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1 April 2001, 03:44 GMT
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Re: Advertising on ticalc.org
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DWedit
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Right click on ad... Add to WEBWASHER filter list...
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1 April 2001, 03:57 GMT
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Xerik
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I don't really see why Hp wouldn't advertise on a TI site. All the Ti-83 plus users are going to get mad at thier little calculator that I would use for a doorstop if it had a nice wedge shape. Maybe Hp thinks people might go for a Hp calc instead of a newer TI. And the entire purpose of the 49 was to make math very very simple. Which is what all of the 83 users want since they have them for Alg-II through whatever. And is the 49 nice for math class. heh heh
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1 April 2001, 03:58 GMT
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Re: Advertising on ticalc.org
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DWedit
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Among the target demographic for this site are:
Piraters who never buy anything
Webwasher users
ROM hoarders
Warez Kiddies
Oldskool gamers
People have been using an unregistered version of Winzip for 5 years...
And there are ad banners for HP calcs here?
LOL!
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1 April 2001, 04:02 GMT
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Xerik
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Are there any ads besides that one HP one??????
Judging by the source code of the page it is the first one. and there is another banner for some Ti-81 game page(not paid for i guess). But only the Hp banner ever seems to load. intresting.
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1 April 2001, 04:03 GMT
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onefastfiveoh
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If you don't want to see the ads, just download a nifty program called add-subtract. I did and it works great. And best of all is free to all non, comercial persons.
Just go to www.adsubtract.com I believe.
onefastfiveoh
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1 April 2001, 04:43 GMT
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jpd2000
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This site is still cool regardless.
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1 April 2001, 05:09 GMT
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Scott Noveck
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Still lame, but it sure beats last year. At least some people are fooled 'cause you post in GMT (this means you, M.G. =) And at least you didn't post it under "fake news," like last year's "Steve Whittaker Seizes ticalc.org"
I must say, the ad looks very professional, although it'd be better if you link it to a page on ticalc that tracks the accounts that "fell for it", add in a list of email addresses that submitted ads, and posted it all as a "suckers" list =)
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1 April 2001, 05:41 GMT
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Scott Noveck
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And if you thought that this April Fools joke was bad, you should see the "Diablo 2" ARGP program uploaded yesterday.
That _was_ a joke, right?
right?
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1 April 2001, 06:10 GMT
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waterworld_3
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I understand why the site put this banners, they need money to keep the site running, but what I don´t get it, is why they put HP banners?????????
------WaterWorld_3
2000
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1 April 2001, 06:54 GMT
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Re: Advertising on ticalc.org
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DWedit
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Hey! Have you seen calc.org's april fools joke? It's Absolutely Hilarious™!
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1 April 2001, 07:26 GMT
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