The Uselessness of Guestbooks

This is my winning entry for the Useless Web Pages Guestbook Contest. If you think this is useless, check out my home page!

Please don't send me URLs for more guestbooks. I have no interest in maintaining a canonical collection of guestbooks.

The Story

A while ago, I was looking through the always-entertaining Useless Web Pages when I saw the Guestbook Contest with a note saying that the current winning entry only had 20 guestbooks. I thought to myself, ``this is too good to be true!''

I knew a simple Lycos search would produce a lot more than 20 guestbooks, and after tweaking the options for Lycos to show me more than 10 hits at a time, I had a winning entry. (Actually, Lycos returned about 4000 pages containing the string ``guest book,'' but most of them were just pages with pointers to guestbooks rather than actual living, breathing guestbooks, so I filtered these results through Perl to obtain the 660 actual guestbooks listed below.)

Thanks for the shirt, Useless guys!

And without further ado:

The Guestbooks

Maintained and validated by Gerald Oskoboiny (gerald@cs.ualberta.ca)