April 30, 2002
5:20 PM   Subscribe

What happened to my favorite Star Wars news site? For some reason, TheForce.net is down and in its place is "Chick Click" which celebrates "cool chicks who are stirring things up, from stellar athletes to musical mavens to young activists." It appears as if the downward spiral of the economy has struck Chick Click, but what does this have to do with TheForce.net. Bring me back my Ki Adi Mundi!
posted by Hammerikaner (7 comments total)

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the force is not with you. I can see it just fine.
posted by th3ph17 at 5:22 PM on April 30, 2002


What is this "Star Wars" thing you speak of?
posted by eyeballkid at 5:27 PM on April 30, 2002


seriously guys, i see Chick Click. i typed in theforce.net and it came up with the page for chickclick.com. it could just be a problem with my school's firewall/router/proxy thing. but... chick click?
posted by Hammerikaner at 5:31 PM on April 30, 2002


Q: What do Chick Click and the Comic Sans font have in common? A: Both are endorsed by Satan.

I just made that up so don't be a hater.
posted by iconomy at 5:32 PM on April 30, 2002


"Unfortunately, because of the changes in the economy, we can no longer keep ChickClick up and running."

Happy now, Hammerikaner? You killed it.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:32 PM on April 30, 2002


it could just be a problem with my school's firewall/router/proxy thing. but... chick click?

Both Web sites are probably hosted on the same server, and the server uses the HTTP 1.1 Host header to decide which site to return. Your firewall probably doesn't support this header (or HTTP 1.1) and so you get the "default" site on the server. If you do a DNS lookup on both domains they will likely point to the same IP address, which is a sure sign.
posted by kindall at 5:39 PM on April 30, 2002


What's odd is when you ping theforce.net it's IP shows up as 216.35.123.107, but if you click on the link it leads to ign.com. So I think TheForce.net is on a shared IP.
posted by riffola at 5:49 PM on April 30, 2002


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