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This was 2005, so its not that long ago, we already had facebook for example ;) Still the idea was pretty novel and worked, many tried to copy the approach and
by kayoone 13y ago
This was 2005, so its not that long ago, we already had facebook for example ;) Still the idea was pretty novel and worked, many tried to copy the approach and failed. Even Alex Tew, the guy behind the site, came back later with a Photobook and some other pixel based business idea (pixelotto) but couldnt replicate the success.
- runn1ng 13y agoFacebook was a very different site back then. People still used MySpace. iPhone was still not introduced for 2 years. Apples computers were named iBook and PowerBook and run on PPC for one more year.
- andyhmltn 13y agoWhen you put it like that, things really have changed!
- jessriedel 13y agoFacebook was still an Ivy-league only site, right?
- elif 13y agoNo, it was .edu email address only, though. source: GT freshman in 2005 :)
- kayoone 13y agoSure, 8 years is a long time in IT but still. The same year we got the Xbox360 (which is still around) and buzzwords like Web 2.0 and Ajax were all over the place. Doesnt seem too distant in my memory atleast.
- jerf 13y agoIf you look at it, you can see how many of the pixel buys were made by people themselves trying to copy the idea for "pixel ads". Even the day it came out I thought it was funny that people could think that would actually become a "thing". Ad space was too cheap to sell for that to be anything but a one-off gimmick. A cute gimmick, but obviously a gimmick from the moment it happened.