Planet Geek!: The URL Game.. An Interview with Jonathan Whiting

Web games. There's zillions of them. Find your way out of the room, play Zork,
all the fun in the world can be found on the web somewhere. Everything's
been done to death.

Or has it?

I have to blame blk for pointing me
at a very simple webgame. I'd tell you the name of it, but... well, it doesn't
have one.

The premise is simple. Go to n.nfshost.com.
You'll see a nice big black page with the number one on it. This is the beginning of the
game. Your task, find the next page. This one is obviously '1.html'. Hmm, what could the
next page be... ahh, clicking on the '1' gives you the page '2.html'. Okay, pretty
good Now, though, what could be the next page? Probably... 3.html. But there's no
link to it, so maybe typing it into the web browser will work. Aha! It does.

Now find the next page.

And the next.

And the next.

Each page provides a hint as to what the next pages' url will be.

Need a hint? DON'T GOOGLE IT! Some bright folks have put the entire URL list
on the net, and it really takes all the fun out of it. You will need to use
google for some of the hints, but just be careful about where you click.

As I am wont to do, I was curious about the motivation behind this nifty game.
It seems so simple, I wonder how it came about. After a big of digging, I managed
to get ahold of Jonathan Whiting, aka 'Piglet', who agreed to a quicky interview on the game...

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