Welcome to the fourth RECOIL19.NET Contest!

 

More than 10 years passed by since the last contest. But there is again a very good reason to do another RECOIL19.NET contest as this website has been online for 20 years last January!

 

To celebrate the site's 20 year anniversary, I decided to do another contest with a very special prize you hopefully will like -

a SUBHUMAN U.K. original 2007 double LP, signed by Alan Wilder especially for this contest!

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

 

I have no idea how many copies were pressed of it then, but it is already not that easy to find a copy in a good shape at a reasonable price.
This time there's only one prize as all my duplicate itmes are already long gone.

 

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?

 

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.

 

In 2016 I got more and more aware that people are using smart phones and tablets to surf on the internet. When I checked the website on such devices I was very disappointed how it was presented. The site was initially done for computers resp. laptops and it was done the way as websites were built then. But this kind of presentation did no longer fit the current standards. Therefore I decided to do another "smart phone/tablet-friendly" version of the website.

 

I bought myselt a book about the current HTML/CSS versions to catch up with the new standards and built a new website version (RECOIL19.NET V2.0) from scratch. I started to do a protoype of a page and checked it against several browsers on my laptop as well as smart phones and tablets based on iOS resp. Android operating systems.
It is weird that different web-browsers display the same HTML-code in a slightly different way - therfore finding a solution that fitted all caused some hair tearing! But once this was accomplished progress was quite fast as I had all info and the images from the original version of the website. A lot of "copy&paste" work followed!

 

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.

 

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:

 

Daniel and Bettina,

 

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 again this time:

 

 What is the exact date when RECOIL19.NET V2.0 (the current version) went online?

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

THE RULES:

 

• Please include the following details in your email:
  • state "Contest04" 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 30th April 2024 to: contest@recoil19.net.

 

The winner will be drawn by myself and will be contacted by me subsequently in May.

 

 

 

 

 

THE PRIZE:

 

• SUBHUMAN (Stumm 279), U.K. original 2007 double LP
  •  (signed by Alan Wilder himself especially for this contest!)

 

 

 

 

 

THE SOLUTION:

 

The correct answer is: 1st November 2016

 

 

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

 

• Vlad Jonathan Lee from Israel ("Vlad" of DEPMOD forum)
• Alex Fernandes from Portugal
• Ronnie Hoegh from Denmark
• Garth MacNeil from Canada
• Niclas Carlenius from Sweden ("Nixie" of DEPMOD forum)
• Marc Vierheller from Germany ("Vervet" of DEPMOD forum)
• Romans Gaisins from Latvia ("Romashov" of DEPMOD forum)
• Marcin Starek from Poland ("marcin.starek" of DEPMOD forum)
• Richard Knight from United Kingdom
• Ingo "weste" Westphal from Germany
• Marcin Hebel from Poland
• Massimiliano Marotto from Italy
• Matthew Pell from England
• Norbert Theobald from Germany ("Profate" of NEW LIFE forum)
• Heiko Thurm from Germany
• Claudia Angelica Cruz Ruiz from Mexico
• Fernando Aboud from Argentina ("eternal darkness" of DEPMOD forum)
• Imrich Vegh from Slovakia
• David Curry from Australia ("aussiemode" of DEPMOD forum)
• Alex Picha from Sweden ("alexpicha" of DEPMOD forum)
• Sarah Watkins
• Thomas Müller from Germany
• Ivar Fougstedt from Japan
• Phil Evamy from United Kingdom
• Jörg Merkel from Germany ("dmjoerg" of DEPMOD forum)
• Karine Cnudde from France
• Mat Yudov from Russia
• Jose Manuel Limones Golderos from Spain
• Scott MacFarlane from Scotland ("Scott" of DEPMOD forum)
• Michał Niedźwiecki from Poland
• András Varsányi from Hungary ("Andras" of DEPMOD forum)
• A. Seymen Altinyeleklioglu from Turkey ("sey_a" of DEPMOD forum)
• Aidan Berry from England
• Sofija Gorovaja from Latvia
• Reuven Lancry from USA
• Bogdan Petrache from Romania
• Günter Dziubon from Germany
• Audrey Pennel from France
• Milica Todorović from Serbia
• Michael Rose from United Kingdom ("Marblehead Johnson" of DEPMOD forum)
• Thomas Höhne from Germany
• Tim Cox from USA
• Jens Peter Grosen from Denmark
• Kristen Kommeth Todd from USA
• Jan Hulsig Jensen from Denmark
• Hjördis Schulz from Germany
• Peter Degn from Denmark
• Alexandra Kashperskaya from Germany
• Andrzej Bronowicki from Poland
• Lars Meißner from Germany ("Halo 242" of DEPMOD forum)
• Tracey Morris from Canada
• Alisa Airapetian from Germany
• Matilda Granitckaia from Canada
• Igor Kostarev from Russia
• Martin Nechala from Slovakia
• Caren Karabulut from USA
• Anna Kuznetsova from Russia
• Celia Lara from USA
• Lauren McCallum from Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WINNER:

 

This is the winner of the fourth RECOIL19.NET Contest!

 

Michał Niedźwiecki from Poland

 

Many congratulations!!!