Launch
In October 2003, players of Imperialism 2 were doubtless cheered by this announcement:
Hi, this is to advise anyone who's interested that I've put together a site for Imperialism 2.
It's called The Daily Imperialist and it's at http://www.thedailyimperialist.ws
The intention is to collect all possible resources relating to Imp2, including ideas and suggestions for Imp3 (the latter falls under the heading of wishful thinking, given Frog City's recent comments, which can be found on the Imp3 page).
Please drop by and leave some feedback, and if you have any Imp-related links, writing, or ideas, feel free to submit them. The more the merrier!
- Thanks,
- dminoz
Progress
Once again the Southern Hemisphere led in the technology world!
The site expanded to Imp1 and Trade Empires and had some changes of address and has now finally stopped being updated, but it has performed grandly while alive.
It said "hosted by StrategyPlanet", but that redirects to www.gamespy.com, which is still visible but says it stopped in February 2013, leaving the archive.kontek.net pages as the only source in October 2014.
Conclusion
Unfortunately The Daily Imperialist may no longer be accessed directly but an archive can be found here: ☀https://archive.kontek.net/dailyimperialist.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/index.htm
External links
- Index page - fairly new URL, not showing any dates, but with several working links to subsections; email shown as dminoz"at"gmail.com; Top heading on the page is "The first Imp2 map mod! TheSan Francisco Bay Area. " above a screenshot of that map
- Its discussion group - the Imp list: over 6,000 members and still alive in 2019!
- Tracking site report, early 2014? "Thedailyimperialist is ranked 2,174,684 in the United States." It has subpages including "Last Updated: 01/28/2014 ", Estimated worth $874.79; External links 23; Number of pages 15" and:
Traffic History 90 Day Average Worldwide Rank 4,331,583 -489,558 Daily Visitors 43 -9% Daily Visitors Rank 5,055,654 117,854 Daily Pageviews 150 +70%