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Someone's gotta mention http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com : Early in the history of the Internet, some high school kid
by ctdonath 10y ago
Someone's gotta mention http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com :
Early in the history of the Internet, some high school kid set up a web page with a 1000x1000 image and a limited color palette. He sold individual pixels, plus a link from that pixel to anywhere, for $1. Yup, he sold them all in fairly short order.
- xanderstrike 10y agoThe sad thing is none of those logos and links have any meaning any more, almost all of them go to 404s, domain parked pages, or completely unrelated sites, and even when they were new they went to scummy ecommerce or porn sites. In 12 years, the imagery on /r/place will still hold meaning and the timelapses will still tell a pretty cool story.
- petepete 10y agoCartridge Save (top left) are still going strong. I used to work for their offshoot web division many years ago.
- koyote 10y agoLings Cars is still doing fine! http://www.lingscars.com/ http://www.lingscars.com/
- ctdonath 10y agoIt's like an old photograph of Times Square, where most businesses shown are long defunct and many were of dubious character. Nonetheless, it still holds meaning and tells a pretty cool story.
- joenot443 10y agoPretty wild to see a (relatively) huge company like 2checkout (https://www.2checkout.com/ https://www.2checkout.com/) on there.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIt was an international news story and clearly still gets some attention (last time I was reminded of it was within the last year).
- Houshalter 10y agoThe reddit experiment is way more interesting. Everything on million dollar homepage is trashy ads for very shady websites. /r/Place is populated by fan communities and jokes and memes. I set it as my desktop background and still keep finding interesting things in it.