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Re:Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds by sumukh1 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @10:26AM (#3761643)
It wasn't actually 30 seconds. It just was timing out. I got one in the first six minutes or so. and as of 7:26 PDT there are still regular tickets left.
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Re:Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds by juiceandjuice on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @03:53PM (#3763309)
The silly thing was this:

They had a page that said "Don't refresh this page or you will lose your spot in line"

So you wait, after 6 30 second requests to the server, it times out and says "We were unable to find a ticket... please try again"

So I waited, instead of crazily just refreshing the page and disregarding what they said, hoping it was true and Google had implemented some sort of queueing system (call me crazy). My very first request to the page was at 7:00:22 AM.

So, obviously it wasn't actually a queuing system, especially because it was still getting {"status":"waiting"} responses for about a minute after all tickets were reported as sold out on the main page.

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Re:Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds by vincentmac on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @10:31AM (#3761670)
looks to be officially sold out now. I have been trying since 7 am.
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