Let's Play Webtrail!

[Nova]

So check this out. Basically, competetors in the competition had to get from a website to a completely different one by simply clicking links. No copy-pasting, no googling, no typing of any kind.

Looks pretty interesting huh? I reckon we should have a go at this.

So here's your challenge. Get from Amazon.co.uk to the Open Pandora website using only links.

First person to post their entire trail here is the winner.

 

[lulzfish]

It is hard as ***** to get out of the Amazon network but I probing it for potential exits.
If I can get to Wikipedia on any level, I'm probably home-free. It's the only site I know of that might link here, and you can go anywhere once you're on it, like the interstate.

Edit: Ah I'm on Twitter, I think I'm getting close!

Wait, you said Open Pandora site? www.openpandora.org, then, not gp32x?

Edit: Think I'll have a route, need like 10 more minutes.

 

[lulzfish]

A WINNER IS ME

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://uk.imdb.com/
http://uk.imdb.com/news/ni3708375/
http://uk.imdb.com/news/ni3720108/
http://www.celebrity-mania.com/
http://twitter.com/celebrity_mania
http://twitter.com/
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/resources
http://www.eliasonfamily.info/blog/?p=327
http://www.eliasonfamily.info/blog/?page_id=2
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-02/mf_brianroberts
http://arstechnica.com/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/
http://www.busybox.net/
http://www.busybox.net/links.html
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Linuxbased-MIDs-UMPCs-and-Tablets/
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Could-Pandora-open-up-Linux-games/
http://openpandora.org/

Amazon is in the same network as IMDB
IMDB's article about a celebrity came from a shitty site called celebrity-mania
celebrity-mania links to a shittier site called twitter
twitter links to some weblog I don't care about
The weblog links to Wired Magazine
Wired Magazine is part of the same media conglomerate as Arse Technica
Ars Technica has jackshit for archives, so I couldn't go through their 2009 article on the Pandora. >
But they had a recent article about BusyBox.
BusyBox has a link to Linuevices.
Linuevices has an incredibly old entry for the Pandora (128 MB of RAM and an "Open2X linux"??)
Said entry links to http://openpandora.org

Traversed 21 URLs, including start and endpoints.

Wikipedia didn't help at all, apparently nobody ever links there. I had to move sideways through news sites that linked to each other, rather than dropping to the wiki and going anywhere easily.

 

[Iorgy77]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/
PC and Video Games section had the PS3 wand thingy which had an advert to modded controllers website

http://www.evilcontrollers.com/blog/
had a link on their blog to a kotaku article

http://kotaku.com
has a link at the top to gizmodo

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/
just got lucky with related tags > opensource > linux and then a device which had an article on linuxfordevices.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/s/News/
Most popular articles on the side of the page "• Cortex-A8 gaming handheld runs Linux" and at the bottom a link to OP.org.

http://openpandora.org/

 

[Nova]

Wow, well done you too. Some solid trailin'.

Anyone want to suggest a new path?

 

[dflemstr]

Completely random suggestion:

http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/ → http://chakra-project.org/

Good luck with that one It might be too difficult for you so feel free to ignore the suggestion.

(Oh and I have the "solution" of course)

 

[Nova]

Hmmm. I've managed to get to the Wired website, where I was sure I'd find an article but there's nothing. I'll keep looking.

 

[dflemstr]

I got it down to 6 steps now, endpoints included.

 

[quote]

Looks fun, I'll give it a go.
I remember a similar game; like this one (no typing) but you have to stay in wikipedia.

Edit: I get bored too easily.

 

[lulzfish]

I remember a similar game; like this one (no typing) but you have to stay in wikipedia.

Wikipedia-only is a lot easier and shorter, since there are a more links and you can generally guess what direction to go.

You can also choose a single starting point in Wikipedia, and then try to get to the "Jesus" or "Hitler" articles.
For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

6 pages inclusive.

Unsurprisingly, Hitler is semi-protected.

 

[urjaman]

I remember a similar game; like this one (no typing) but you have to stay in wikipedia.

Wikipedia-only is a lot easier and shorter, since there are a more links and you can generally guess what direction to go.

You can also choose a single starting point in Wikipedia, and then try to get to the "Jesus" or "Hitler" articles.
For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

6 pages inclusive.

Unsurprisingly, Hitler is semi-protected.

Pandora to Jesus in 4 steps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth

 

[dflemstr]

Everyone seems to have given up on my challenge.

http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://lwn.net/Distributions/
http://chakra-project.org/


Now, Wikipedia is boring, because there are tons of websites dedicated to finding the shortest path between two wiki articles out there, so anyone can cheat.

E.g. http://www.xltd.com/WikiMindMap/WikiPath.htm

Pandora → Hitler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

Pandora → Jesus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus