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Reminds me a bit of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com Old Internet times that will probably never come back.
by reddalo 9mo ago
Reminds me a bit of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
Old Internet times that will probably never come back.
- jsheard 9mo agoI wonder how much of that would be left standing today if you blanked out all the dead/squatted links...
- Proofread0592 9mo agoThe Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked
- saw-lau 9mo agoGot through to The Times newspaper!
- soulofmischief 9mo agoI owned a nice little parcel, but my registrar had issues with a payment and the email got swallowed up and I didn't notice. Forgot to check up on it because I paid for several years up front at a time. Oh well :)
- squigz 9mo ago> Old Internet times that will probably never come back. I don't understand. How can you say this on a post about a site that is almost the exact same thing you're reminiscing about? Arguably way cooler - at least WebTiles isn't charging money for spots.
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- reddalo 9mo agoI know. But on the Internet everybody was talking about the One Million Dollar Home Page. I don't think WebTiles will be front page news tomorrow.
- akoboldfrying 9mo agoI read somewhere that after it took off, people started making copycat sites -- which inevitably sold about 6 pixels each. I sometimes wonder if those copycat site people were surprised that their sites didn't do as well, when their pixels were just as good.
- jsheard 9mo agoSome of them even bought pixels on the original to advertise their knock-off. Predictably those are all long gone now.
- euroderf 9mo agoSounds like a great predictive metaphor for the cryptocurrency industry.
- Lerc 9mo agoConsidering that one of the common critiques of Bitcoin is "Why should it have value when anyone can make one?" It seems quite a lot of people don't grasp that when people have a choice of interaction mechanism, there is value in going where the people already are. I guess the counterpoint to that, for both Crypto and Pixel sites, is that the cost of making one is low enough that someone could do it not expecting it to do well and is just taking a punt on the non-zero chance it will do well. For the rest of us, we are probably better off ignoring the many insignificant instances. They are, for the most part truly insignificant. You may stumble across one once in a while, but really you would have to go looking specifically for them to be annoyed by how many there are.
- cjr 9mo agoalso reminds me of https://onemillionscreenshots.com https://onemillionscreenshots.com (full disclosure - my screenshot api takes the screenshots :) )
- ponchel 9mo agoI find it a bit sad of many of these websites are just no longer available