Now I know how Columbus felt

When we last saw our intrepid hero, Jonah, he was attempting to download Firefox 3 and participate in the historical event of setting a Guiness World Record. Unfortunately, so was everyone else!

All kidding aside, the web server(s) were so overloaded that the request to download the page containing the download links would time out. I finally managed to get a partial display of that page, but without any of the style sheet information, and none of the links worked. I wound up using "View Source" to find the URL for the various versions of Firefox (i.e. Windows, Linux and Mac), and copied and pasted the URL into my address bar.

Next thing I knew, I had a 7.1 MB file called "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe" (presumably a Windows installer) on my desktop. Too bad I was on my G4 iBook at the time. So, technically, I downloaded Firefox 3 before midnight on June 17th.

(FWIW, I was able to download the Mac OS X version a few minutes ago, and it looks like I'm still within the technical timeframe thanks to timezones and all that. )