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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 visitorNumber
An old friend 932
If you're an old old friend, you might be interested in this picture
Other friend or family 940
Someone with similar technical or academic interests 967
A student in Electronics at York 955
Someone else from York 962
A student from somewhere else 895
Someone else from somewhere else (but intended to get here) 905
Looking for a John Robinson, but not this one 982
I haven't a clue how I got here 955
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".