Mysterious web site

[HiBaller]

On the back of the boxed version of my copy of Trainz 2012 there is a big green square in the lower right corner with the word "General" printed inside the square. Turned vertically at the right side is the URL for a web site. The site is "oflc.gov.au". I don't know about anyone else, but this site comes up as "Server Not Found - Firefox cannot find ..........".

I'm just curious why N3V would print a web site that isn't available on their boxes. No big deal - just strange is it not?

Bill

 

[shaneturner12]

That would probably have been the game-rating agency/organisation involved, and they have probably changed their address since the boxed version came out - that's what I would guess anyway.

Shane

EDIT: A google search has confirmed this - it's the Office of Film and Literature Classification, which now appears to have an address of classification.gov.au.

 

[HiBaller]

Figured as much. Darned web just won't hold still will it? :hehe:

Bill

 

[shaneturner12]

That's normal. It may be on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine though.

Shane

 

[Dermmy]

oflc is the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, current url http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx.

Classification replaced Censorship when the latter term became politically unacceptable, but it's the same sad old dudes in grey Macintosh coats deciding what the rest of us can and can't see or read....

Andy

 

[HiBaller]

I took a look at the revised web site. Seems to me that it is what the old "Maryland Board of Censors" used to have at the beginning of every movie I saw in the theaters during the 1940's and 1950s. But, I guess that's their business and not mine. We have our own rating systems which sometimes seems pretty silly also.

Bill