> The latest link on Dave Barry's blog is to the Dialectizer. Pretty cool.

That is pretty cool. Reading the comments to that entry this morning, I notice that one says that the site went down due to traffic (never heard of that happening before -- could it really have happened?) and others suggest that our beloved Dialectizer is based off of Google's translator (rubbish, as I'm sure the Dialectizer pre-dates Google's translator by several years, and might even pre-date Google) and is similar to some other website (again, I suspect that it is the other way around).

This got me to thinking, though, and now I have a question for our resident finders-of-things: Is Sam's Dialectizer the first such amusement to ever appear on the web? Can this be proven with any reasonable certainty? At the very least, can it be proven to pre-date Google's translator? Is it possible that Google's translator is based on the Dialectizer?

Don "Curious Little" Monkey