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wilfra on Aug 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will b...

haha alexa #6 site for Norway too!

Pretty common for Scandinavian countries. Something about engagement plummeting whenever they try to change them. So they do it like Craigslist and never change anything.

troels on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

vg's website has been the poster child for other scandinavian news papers. Apparently their butt-ugly layout works really well.

mrcalzone on Aug 24, 2012 | [–]

Not related to their design, but Varnish (the HTTP accelerator) was initially created by VG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History

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