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What sort of person visits this website?
You can help answer by clicking on (and incrementing) the
number of visitors for your category in this table:
| Category of visitor | Number |
| An old friend |
613
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| If you're an old old friend, you might be interested
in this picture | |
| Other friend or family |
634
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| Someone with similar technical or academic interests |
658
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| A student in Electronics at York |
646
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| Someone else from York |
647
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| A student from somewhere else |
587
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| Someone else from somewhere else (but intended to get here) |
590
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| Looking for a John Robinson, but not this one |
683
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| I haven't a clue how I got here |
645
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But surely asking for clicks isn't a reliable way to count
visitors?! True enough, but neither is a hit counter,
website logger, or any other method that monitors HTTP
requests. Over 50% of web pages are served by proxies,
not the originating site. Conversely, some ISPs route
requests from a single client to a web server via multiple
requesting hosts. So there's no way a web site can reliably
monitor visitors, hits or browsing choices, without
throwing cookies (rude) or asking for information (naively
hopeful and trusting). No cookies here, just a little
blue number waving "click me".
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