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The original million dollar home page was motivated by advertisers wanting SEO benefits. It was picked up by major media, so those pixels had value in addition

The original million dollar home page was motivated by advertisers wanting SEO benefits. It was picked up by major media, so those pixels had value in addition to the SEO benefits. This WebGL version doesn't have that value. I think it's a scam but people can make their own opinions.

ASalazarMX 7y ago
Also, times have changed a lot since then. This should be the Billion Dollar Progressive Responsive Adaptive Single-Page Web App.
- geerlingguy 7y ago
  And it needs to be built with microservices and run on a multi-cloud Kubernetes installation with a service mesh.
  - munk-a 7y ago
    And written in Elm of course.
    - schroffl 7y ago
      Well, to be fair, Elms WebGL interface is surprisingly easy to use.
      - DonHopkins 7y ago
        And it needs to use Pones! What are Pones, you might ask! Well, they're kind of like Nodes, but more vague and general purpose, so you can use them everywhere, for everything, no matter what you're doing! I like to think of a PONE as the ultimate middleware between COM and NT. So you can't have a COMPONENT without a PONE! But they're great with all kinds of other stuff, too, like XML Pones, and JSON Pones, and Kuber Pones, and Reactive Pones, and Elm Pones, and Corn Pones. Pones are disruptive, yet social! Pones are taking the Internet by storm! Live long and use lots of Pones! “You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is.” -Mark Twain Mark Twain: Corn-pone Opinions http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html >[...] Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, corn-pone stands for self-approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is conformity. Sometimes conformity has a sordid business interest -- the bread-and-butter interest -- but not in most cases, I think. I think that in the majority of cases it is unconscious and not calculated; that it is born of the human being's natural yearning to stand well with his fellows and have their inspiring approval and praise -- a yearning which is commonly so strong and so insistent that it cannot be effectually resisted, and must have its way. A political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force in its two chief varieties -- the pocketbook variety, which has its origin in self-interest, and the bigger variety, the sentimental variety -- the one which can't bear to be outside the pale; can't bear to be in disfavor; can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder; wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome, wants to hear the precious words, "He's on the right track!" Uttered, perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness, and membership in the herd. For these gauds many a man will dump his life-long principles into the street, and his conscience along with them. We have seen it happen. In some millions of instances. [...]
divbzero 7y ago
The original million dollar home page was just as much of a “scam” until the publicity made it worthwhile marketing. I would reserve judgment.
bt3 7y ago
The original wasn't really a scam either. The about page isn't live anymore (sure it's cached somewhere), but if I remember the story, the guy was trying to fund college/ university and he set this up a bit on a whim hoping to get a few bucks out of it. It took off after a few initial sales by friends and family. This "sequel" bears no similarities to the original in intent.
omarchowdhury 7y ago
You're calling it a scam as if this website is touting that they are offering the same SEO benefits of the original project. They aren't.
petercooper 7y ago
I encouraged someone I knew who ran a Web hosting company to buy a big spot (the "FREE HOSTING" banner in the top half) once I saw the initial PR blowing up and this was why they made the order. Different times nowadays! This is a neat project, but I'm not sure I could see something like this sweeping across mass media like MDH did.
abacadaba 7y ago
Lesson #10303146 in "never listen to the haters." Godspeed, Mr. Metropolis Builder.

ASalazarMX 7y ago

Also, times have changed a lot since then. This should be the Billion Dollar Progressive Responsive Adaptive Single-Page Web App.

geerlingguy 7y ago
And it needs to be built with microservices and run on a multi-cloud Kubernetes installation with a service mesh.
- munk-a 7y ago
  And written in Elm of course.
  - schroffl 7y ago
    Well, to be fair, Elms WebGL interface is surprisingly easy to use.
    - DonHopkins 7y ago
      And it needs to use Pones! What are Pones, you might ask! Well, they're kind of like Nodes, but more vague and general purpose, so you can use them everywhere, for everything, no matter what you're doing! I like to think of a PONE as the ultimate middleware between COM and NT. So you can't have a COMPONENT without a PONE! But they're great with all kinds of other stuff, too, like XML Pones, and JSON Pones, and Kuber Pones, and Reactive Pones, and Elm Pones, and Corn Pones. Pones are disruptive, yet social! Pones are taking the Internet by storm! Live long and use lots of Pones! “You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is.” -Mark Twain Mark Twain: Corn-pone Opinions http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html >[...] Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, corn-pone stands for self-approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is conformity. Sometimes conformity has a sordid business interest -- the bread-and-butter interest -- but not in most cases, I think. I think that in the majority of cases it is unconscious and not calculated; that it is born of the human being's natural yearning to stand well with his fellows and have their inspiring approval and praise -- a yearning which is commonly so strong and so insistent that it cannot be effectually resisted, and must have its way. A political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force in its two chief varieties -- the pocketbook variety, which has its origin in self-interest, and the bigger variety, the sentimental variety -- the one which can't bear to be outside the pale; can't bear to be in disfavor; can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder; wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome, wants to hear the precious words, "He's on the right track!" Uttered, perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness, and membership in the herd. For these gauds many a man will dump his life-long principles into the street, and his conscience along with them. We have seen it happen. In some millions of instances. [...]

divbzero 7y ago

The original million dollar home page was just as much of a “scam” until the publicity made it worthwhile marketing. I would reserve judgment.

bt3 7y ago

The original wasn't really a scam either. The about page isn't live anymore (sure it's cached somewhere), but if I remember the story, the guy was trying to fund college/ university and he set this up a bit on a whim hoping to get a few bucks out of it. It took off after a few initial sales by friends and family. This "sequel" bears no similarities to the original in intent.

omarchowdhury 7y ago

You're calling it a scam as if this website is touting that they are offering the same SEO benefits of the original project. They aren't.

petercooper 7y ago

I encouraged someone I knew who ran a Web hosting company to buy a big spot (the "FREE HOSTING" banner in the top half) once I saw the initial PR blowing up and this was why they made the order. Different times nowadays! This is a neat project, but I'm not sure I could see something like this sweeping across mass media like MDH did.

abacadaba 7y ago

Lesson #10303146 in "never listen to the haters." Godspeed, Mr. Metropolis Builder.