Welcome to the third RECOIL19.NET Contest!

 

Again a lot of time passed by since the last contest. But there is a very good reason again for another RECOIL19.NET contest as this website has been online for 10 years this month!

 

To celebrate the site's 10 year anniversary, I decided to do another contest with a few prizes you hopefully will like.

There's again a very special first prize this time -

a UNSOUND METHODS SAMPLER U.K. 12" test pressing EP, signed by Alan Wilder especially for this contest!

(thanks a lot again Alan for your support with this!)

 

This disc itself was once part of Alan's personal collection - the standard 12" vinyl EP (which was a promotional only release) has become quite rare these days but a test pressing of it is simply.....

 

All you have to do is answering the question below. There's a hint stated right there - using this, it shouldn't be too difficult to locate the information I'm asking for.

 

Please read the RULES carefully.

 

GOOD LUCK!

 

 

 

 

 

THE WEBSITE:

 

In 2001, when doing a website was still very new, I wanted to do "something" too in that area. I didn't have any education regarding HTML and all that stuff but I had already been playing around a bit with this new technique. The first idea was to create a DEPECHE MODE website containing stuff from my private collection with scans and information of all items. I actually started to prepare it but the prospect of putting my whole collection there (which was already rather big at that point of time) and the huge amount of time this effort would consume caused the project evolving quite half-hearted.

 

In spring 2002 I thought to myself that it would make more sense to create a RECOIL website. By that time a few small RECOIL sites were already around but none of them was dealing properly with collector's aspects. I was aware that I had already some nice and collectable items (I started to collect RECOIL stuff seriously in 1992) that would be a good starting point to form a collector's site for RECOIL.

 

That was the initial point preparing a concept for the site (including it should feature stuff from my private collection only) and programming first ideas. Progress was very, very slow as I only spent a few hours for it once a week.

 

By the end of 2003 the site was finished and I put it online in January 2004. I still remember very well that Sunday afternoon when I posted the link on the DEPMOD message board making my collector mates aware of it. It was a rather exciting moment for me - how will it be received? What will other people say about it? Will they like it?

 

Of course I did (and still do) the site for myself as a hobby but it's very flattering if the hard (or better said time consuming) work is acknowledged, especially by people you know and respect.

 

Since then it grew more and more - a "vivid" object. In addition I got more knowledge about programming a website. As I learned everything by myself, this implies that you do many things not that perfect initially as you simply don't know how to do it better. This caused several updates of the code itself. Also the fact that different web-browsers display the same HTML-code in a different way (weird but it is that way) caused some hair tearing!

 

I haven't ever been using any software to prepare the pages of the website. All is done by hand with a simple text-editor called "TextPad". As my profession is software engineer I have a certain dislike for any code-generators as those tend to produce a lot of code that isn't actually all necessary. This means that the code of RECOIL19.NET is a rather slim one. From a technical point of view the site is still very simple.

 

For the original version of the website I had done all the scans with the scanner of my former wife as I didn't have any private computer myself in the beginning. One day its power unit blew up causing some severe damage of the scanner's electronics. So I had to buy a new one and after some first test-scans I was happy and shocked in the same moment: the results were much better than the ones of the old scanner. I remember thinking "Damn! I don't want to but I HAVE to redo all scans of the site with this new device!"

 

I always try to do things the best way I can and although I didn't feel any lust at all to rescan everything (again a lot of time had to be spent!), I knew that I wouldn't be happy anymore looking at the old scans knowing that I could have images in better quality on the website. After one and a half years (!) all scans were replaced by images of the new scanner...

 

Fortunately I have been receiving a lot of positive feedback all those years. This is always very encouraging to move on.

 

Thanks a lot to all supporters and of course to everybody having a look here!

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU:

 

Tanja and Daniel,

 

Alan, Paul and Britt for your support

 

...and (in alphabetical order): Seymen Altinyeleklioglu, Kellie Andrews, Richard Bell, Stephen Blotner, Chris Brown, Dennis Burmeister, Roland Candalot, Igor Cech, Stephen Cox, Steve Fabian, Alex Fernandes, Otto Andor Jung, Alexey Kashpersky, Richard Knight, Vlad Lee, Rossella Macchia, Raphaël Massé, Alexandra Nikitina, Lee North, Alex Picha, Julien Rogé, Peddy Sadighi, Dmitry Semenov, Shinji, Angela Spadola, Oliver Thiede, Marc Vierheller, Andrew Winter, Konstantin Zavodnik.

 

The members of the DEPMOD message board...

 

 

 

 

 

THE EXERCISE:

 

Please answer the following question - you won't need any RECOIL knowledge at all this time:

 

 What is the exact date when RECOIL19.NET went online?

 

 Hint: the updates pages might be helpful! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

THE RULES:

 

• Please include the following details in your email:
  • state "Contest03" as subject
  • your full name
  • the country you live
  • (optional: your forum nick name)
• Only one answer per person will be accepted.
• Multiple answers from one person will lead to disqualification of the contestant.
• Send your answer and details until 31st January 2014 to: contest@recoil19.net.

 

The three winners will be drawn by my son Daniel from all correct entries and will be contacted by me subsequently.

 

 

 

 

 

THE PRIZES:

 

1st Prize:

 

• UNSOUND METHODS SAMPLER, U.K. 12" test pressing EP
  •  (signed by Alan Wilder himself especially for this contest!)
• LIQUID, original t-shirt (size "L"; new)

 

 

2nd Prize:

 

• COLLECTED, U.K. catalogue
  •   (signed by Alan Wilder)
• COLLECTED, U.K. DVD
  •   (signed by Alan Wilder)

 

 

3rd Prize:

 

• COLLECTED, U.K. DVD
  •   (signed by Alan Wilder)

 

 

 

 

 

THE SOLUTION:

 

The correct answer is: 18th January 2004

 

 

The following contestants sent the correct answers (in order of entry):

 

• Andrzej Bronowicki from Poland/Qatar ("cavu" of DEPMOD forum)
• Igor Nikolayevich Kostarev from Russia
• Dave Sewell from United Kingdom
• Niclas Carlenius from Sweden ("Nixie" of DEPMOD forum)
• Bruno Ouvrein from France ("bo101/Bruno²" of Home/DEPMOD forums)
• Luca Urbani from Italy
• Christian Nätscher from Germany
• Rossella Macchia from Italy ("Rox" of DEPMOD forum)
• Marc Vierheller from Germany
• A. Seymen Altinyeleklioglu from Turkey ("sey_a" of DEPMOD forum)
• Christine Blazieko from Canada
• Wojciech Wrobel from Poland ("wketjow" of DEPMOD forum)
• Vlad Lee from Israel ("VDM" of DEPMOD forum)
• Martin Konopka from Slovakia ("Zero202" of DEPMOD forum)
• David Belis from Belgium ("Devid" of DEPMOD forum)
• Tina S. Walters from U.S.A.
• Henrik Glassow Nielsen from Denmark ("iEnjoy" of DEPMOD forum)
• Emmi Korkeamäki from Finland
• Marco Menini from Italy ("markdepeche89" of DEPMOD forum)
• Paul Lloyd from United Kingdom
• Romans Gaisins from Latvia ("Romashov" of DEPMOD forum)
• Roland Candalot from France ("charf" of DEPMOD forum)
• Andrew Summersgill from United Kingdom
• Anton Toplansky from Slovakia ("tonot" of DEPMOD forum)
• Russell Dilnot from United Kingdom
• Daniel Walczak from Poland
• Jan Kanzok from Austria ("devotee2001" of DEPMOD forum)
• Michael Rose from United Kingdom ("Marblehead Johnson" of DEPMOD forum)
• Julien Rogé from France ("happiest_sin" of DEPMOD forum)
• Gert Laursen from Denmark ("Duffy" of DEPMOD forum)
• András Varsányi from Hungary ("Andras" of DEPMOD forum)
• Simon Pykett from United Kingdom ("sausage" of DEPMOD forum)
• Dezső Sebestyán from Hungary ("bias" of DEPMOD forum)
• Raymi Medina-Ortiz from Australia ("ukozcd" of DEPMOD forum)
• Marcin Hebel from Poland ("bloodline" of DEPMOD forum)
• Tomas Illes from Canada ("TPI" of DEPMOD forum)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WINNERS:

 

These are the 3 winners of the third RECOIL19.NET Contest!

 

1st Prize:	Henrik Glassow Nielsen from Denmark
2nd Prize:	Andrzej Bronowicki from Poland/Qatar
3rd Prize:	Raymi Medina-Ortiz from Australia

 

Many congratulations to all winners!!!