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 though it has has now finally stopped being updated, but it 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 can no longer be accessed directly but an archive can be found here: ☀https://archive.kontek.net/dailyimperialist.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/index.htm
External links[]
Still useful[]
- Downloads site by dminoz created in 2019
- Index page - fairly new URL, not showing any dates, but with working links to some subsections (not others); 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 and text: "Thanks to AMRush and his many hours of work with the Imp2 map editor, we now have our very first, fully functional, custom-made map for Imp2! ..."
No longer working as intended[]
- Its discussion group - the Imp list: had over 6,000 members and was still alive in 2019 when Yahoo abandoned its groups.
Historical data[]
- 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%