the story

User Nightmare Number one: A new product from… let's say, PunchCard Advanced Solutions, had arrived… Despite the obvious goodies that come with it, like necessary memory and hard disk upgrades, there is another one here — a huge traffic increase on a glamorous PunchCard.com website… It's been announced that the first 100 users who will manage to download a new product will get a free T-shirt… Sounds familiar?

Well, to make the situation a little easier, these guys at PunchCard had arranged 20 mirror sites to download their software. But there is one thing they forgot — to tell us, which site to go to! So traffic has been divided between the optimists, who sit and wait while their browser will find Mirror Site #1 and the pessimists, who do the same with the Mirror Site #20…

But at that time, a little red hacker from Klever was sitting and thinking… And then he created Dipstick. A tiny little program that lets you drag and drop any URL to see what's going on. And whether it's better to go to Mirror #1 or Mirror #20… No one had come up with that simple idea. Hacker wrote the software and sent to all for free…