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My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
- irtefa 3y agoI love this kind of internet archaeology. It's crazy to think how many sites like this have just been sitting untouched for years. What else is out there?
- Borg3 3y agoYou like archeology? Ok, have fun here... http://borg.uu3.net/ldetweil/ http://borg.uu3.net/ldetweil/
- inhumantsar 3y ago> John Labovitz's e-zine-list - very well maintained, comprehensive list of cyberspatial "zines". Zines are the killer app of cyberspace, like the bible was for Gutenberg.
- matthieucan 3y agoMy favourite is http://perdu.com http://perdu.com, from 1998. I've been using it with ping when testing internet connectivity for years
- varnaud 3y agoWow, I had completely forgot about this website. Thanks for sharing it, now I know where I am :)
- praisewhitey 3y agoMine is https://something.com/ https://something.com/
- HeckFeck 3y agoMay I present Well Made Web, a gallery of inventive and distinguished websites: https://wmw.thran.uk https://wmw.thran.uk One example is Internet Related Technologies which was reporting on new web standards during 1998-2001, last updated in 2001 and still online for all that time: https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/2.html#irt https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/2.html#irt From IRT we have why use CSS, in case anyone still needs convinced: https://irt.org/articles/js135/ https://irt.org/articles/js135/
- matthieucan 3y agoOoh they even talk about DHTML! I had forgotten about that.
- ThinkingGuy 3y agoI used to check ITHell every day, the same way I read HN now. Then around 2001 it just sort of died, and has been frozen in time ever since. http://ithell.com/ http://ithell.com/
- samsquire 3y agoThere's a nostalgia about the old web, where things were uplifting, good and positive.
- mhb 3y agohttps://zombo.com/ https://zombo.com/
- greyKnight 3y agoTake a look at the page source. Unfortunately they stopped updating their Twitter (X) in 2013. https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
- thomas8787 3y agoBrings back memories. I bought a copycat domain name in those days. A couple of months later someone reached out and bought it for like $100 IIRC.
- nojs 3y agoI’m really curious what the original owner of the domain thought the value of spending $200 on that little ad was. Like nobody is going to see it in the sea of other ads, and backlinks weren’t a thing then. Why else would you buy it?
- giarc 3y agoThe Million Dollar Homepage was a big deal back then. I remember seeing it on the news a bunch. It likely got a ton of traffic and every website was trying to capitalize on the hype.
- petepete 3y agoI used to work in the same group as the company in the top left, Cartridge Save. I think the million dollar home page got them quite a few clicks, but when confronted with all those ads it's hard to pick anything out even if it's prominent.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoIt’s not necessarily true that nobody would see your ad, part of the novelty was just mousing over little square to see what was there. This was also in the early days of the web when such things actually were novel.
- bookofjoe 3y agoI know exactly why. Back in the heyday of blogs, around 2010, I was SO fired up every day thinking today would be the day I'd strike it rich. I placed a very small ad featuring my blog's URL in the back pages of The New Yorker: it cost $500 or so. I figured you never know who might see it and visit. For perspective: at peak popularity back then I got about 10,000 visitors/15,000 page views DAILY. Nowadays I get an average of 500 page views daily.
- Scoundreller 3y agoWhat impact did the ad have?
- conradfr 3y agoCome to think of it, MillionDollarHomepage could have offered "pixels owners" of dead businesses to resell their space while taking a cut.
- mchannon 3y agoThe business needn't be dead, and in fact the "lessee" could resell it at a higher price. The ORIGINAL NFT. But most lessee dead businesses would eventually lose track of their credentials, and in fact many of the people simply lost interest or even up and died. A system whereby a dead link or a parking page results in "property tax auctions" would have kept the ecosystem healthier by moving out the dead wood. Milliondollarapp (yes, I'm plugging a personal project, but for the sake of discussion) includes both of these approaches. Unfortunately it's been 90% complete for 7 years, and could really use a collaborator or someone with a more photogenic backstory to market it. What made Milliondollarhomepage a sensation was its founder was trying to raise money to go to university, and that soft spot helped him sell out in about a month. He caught lightning in a bottle and good on him, even if he never ended up going to university for that purpose.
- matthieucan 3y agoTrue, but it's also nice to be able to see the unaltered billboard from back then!
- PurpleRamen 3y agoDon't tell this reddit. Spez might bring back r/places with a twist..
- schlauerfox 3y agoThey already did that to distract from the ongoing API changes issues, away from april fools season. Not sure if it worked, the moderator issue seems to be back page news now that the people have either left or moved on leaving just a sort of netsplit to kbin and lemmy. https://redditmigration.com/ https://redditmigration.com/
- PurpleRamen 3y agoThat was just normal r/places. I was thinking of removing the timeout, and instead let people pay x cent for placing 1 pixel.
- hoofhearted 3y agoHow many people here didn’t realize that the dude who created the million dollar homepage went on to create the Calm app many years later? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tew https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tew
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- altdataseller 3y agoI only realized it when I curiously went to billiondollarhomepage.com and it got redirected to calm.com
- PNewling 3y agoI honestly thought you were making this up, but you are not... http://www.billiondollarhomepage.com/ http://www.billiondollarhomepage.com/
- higgins 3y agoHere’s another (newer) one inspired by the great: https://24HourHomepage.com https://24HourHomepage.com
- loveparade 3y agoPlease don't spam your own projects.
- fragmede 3y agoPlease do! In this case it's actually relevant, so I don't know why you're against it.
- notpushkin 3y agoI think the problem is that while this project has its own twist and not a 1-to-1 clone of the MDHP, ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money for the author.
- nvy 3y ago>ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money You just described 90% of startups
- notpushkin 3y agoTo be honest... yeah, maybe even more.
- bookofjoe 3y agoIs that like eating your own dog food? (Asking for a friend)
- tiborsaas 3y agoIt was quite trippy to watch the slideshow with a 120BPM house track :)
- weinzierl 3y agoI had the same idea and ended up with 75pixels.com, but never did anything with it. Not really surprising that it is similar given that probably many domains there had "pixel" in it and probably we both tried to get an innocuous one. EDIT: Or was it 75pixels.net? I seem to own both.
- matthieucan 3y agoDid you explore archives of the original website?
- weinzierl 3y agoYes, I explored it on DomainTools and to say it doesn't have a completely pristine past is a bit of an understatement, but I think it is hardly possible to find a clean one that at the same time is not trademark risk either.
- xyst 3y agoThe original internet billboard. I remember trying to replicate this when I was a kid on some static web host (geocities?)
- waingake 3y agohttps://thelist.best/ https://thelist.best/ please, thanks
- paulpauper 3y agomillion dollar homepages were sorta like something in-between beanie baby hype and crypto hype.
- Vxbrown 3y agoCommenting for ideas. What to do with that url?