WEEKLY WHINE

25 random things about GoobNet

1. GoobNet is operated by GoobNet Enterprises, Inc [which doesn’t actually exist however].
2. GoobNet has never used a page background that is not ugly.
3. This is our 610th Weekly Whine.
4. Some of the previous 609 were deleted and are now known to no one at all, not even the Wayback Machine.
5. The most recent Weekly Whine to be deleted was the one on SUN 17 MAR 2002.
6. GoobNet began using style sheets in 2003.
7. GoobNet began using XHTML in 2006.
8. Only one person has won the top prize of 1,048,576 GoobNet Silly Bucks on “Who Wants to Be a GoobNetaire”.
9. The full GoobNet staff, comprising Reginald J Goober, Deb Harratsch, Edvard van de Kamp, Debbie Myers, and Amber Lynn, meets only twice per year.
10. Reg fell asleep during the previous staff meeting in NOV 2008.
11. The name “GoobNet” derives from GoobNet’s original purpose as a network of goobs.
12. GoobNet is a proud sponsor of the Flag Capturing Union Champions League, which begins anew in MAY 2009.
13. Deb developed porthole.goobnet.net, then called portHOLE[tm] by GoobNet, in 1999.
14. GoobNet’s home page once had a list of links called the “InterMix” and a weekly message called the “Top Story”.
15. The text in GoobNet’s title image is in a font developed in house, called GoobScript.
16. The first award that GoobNet named for a person was the Jeff Agoos ¡Autogolazo! award for the best own goal in a football tournament.
17. The GoobNet Special Projects Enhancement and Enforcement Division [SPEED] began in 2002 with a staff of 45.
18. Of these 45, only Gaby still remains.
19. The colours of the six types of entries on porthole.goobnet.net were the six additive primary and secondary colours.
20. Weekly Whines from 2006 and before still use the original list of random messages.
21. Every Weekly Whine is written using a computer.
22. The GoobNet Silly Bonus has not been won since the qualifying procedure changed last year.
23. Edvard van de Kamp joined the GoobNet team in 2001.
24. GoobNet Football was introduced in 2001.
25. We don’t give a shit about those 25 random things about you.