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The ASCII Million Dollar Page
- joshu 17y agoNo Unicode?!
- sho 17y agoActually .. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
- chaosmachine 17y ago$20 per character Good luck with that ;)
- metachris 17y agoThe page even says that the "First screen is for internal use, not for sale" lol
- jacquesm 17y agoDude must have cash enough, that's $40K down the tubes right there.
- arithmetic 17y agoHey, I've seen weirder stuff on the internet where someone actually made money. You never know :)
- ido 17y agoHilarious! For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a spoof of this page: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ Which although seems pretty pointless, got a ton of publicity a while ago. EDIT: and apparently actually made its author a million dollars!
- edd 17y agoThe poor thing about the actual million dollar homepage is the creator (a university student trying to make some money to pay of his student debt) then got DDOS attacked to oblivion and had to spend a large amount of the money trying to keep the site up. The DDOS attackers obviously knew he had come in to a large amount of money and held him to ransom.
- davecardwell 17y agoI hadn’t heard about that. Sounds like the attack itself and the resulting investigation weren’t very successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage#DDoS_attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage#DDo...
- tezza 17y agoThe original fitted in approximately 1 browser screen. This ASCII one involves scrolling.
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- est 17y ago> Aug 16, 2009 Inspired by yourworldoftext.appspot.com ?
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- Raphael 17y agoI believe you may be right.
- vindi 17y agopfff
- TweedHeads 17y agoIn order to be original, you have to be, well, original. Fail.
- jacquesm 17y agoOh, come on, you're just jealous ;) I don't know how often this has been done again, the first time it was a pretty good thing though, one of those 'why didn't I think of that' things. Makes you wonder though, there must be some other immensely viral idea that can make you money in a short time lurking somewhere waiting to be discovered. It would help if he made it readable though...
- TweedHeads 17y agoI was one of the many that said to myself "why didn't I think of that" the first time. Not this time. I'll give you one original idea to make you instant millionaire on the web. - Start with a thousand dollars - Every week, ask the wisdom of crowds for a way to double that purchasing, reselling, investing in anything the majority decides. - Repeat ten times till you get to a million dollars. - Keep the crowds amused with your vicissitudes in a daily blog. - Profit! Remember the red-paper-clip guy? something like that but the audience decides what to do with the money, and the whole intent is to double it every time. Show the world we can be millionaires by investing wisely following the wisdom of crowds. For example, first week buy $200 t-shirts for $5 and resell them for $10. Second week, buy an old car for $2000 and resell it for $4000. Those are just stupid examples, the audience should decide wiser. Imagination is all you need to be a millionaire. And originality...
- jacquesm 17y agoI challenge you to execute your idea :) It's a good one but I can see a pitfall: You might buy something that you find is unsellable, killing momentum. A friend of mine - Joyce - had a good idea and put it in to practice, it was called jam-trading. In the Netherlands the traffic jams are terrible and people end up next to each other, often for long times. So she devised this game (not without danger to passing motorcycles), take anything from your car and try to trade it with the people next to you for something that you value more. When the cars move again you get parked next to your 'next victim', rinse & repeat. They started out with a fairly squishy apple (the food kind, not the digital kind), and managed to trade it all the way up to a notebook and a pretty neat pen over a stretch of about 5 kilometers. A 1:20 fold increase in value or so. Not bad for a simple idea...
- dejan 17y agoI can't avoid hating everything that is for pure money making and no user value creation. It is also an advice for startups.
- btw0 17y agoThe site has the potential value to bring traffic to advertised web sites.
- idlewords 17y agoI bet if he had seeded it to make it look like a few people had already paid, he might have made some sales by now, joke site or not. I recently launched a website with a gatekeeping fee pegged to the number of users (fee goes up $0.001 per user) and it surprised me how many people assumed that I started by charging $0.00. Do you really want to be the first paying user of any service?
- olefoo 17y agoI like that idea, it combines 'act now while it's still cheap', with the idea that the site may not be as useful until it has a certain number of users, and thus it makes sense to charge less to early users.
- johnohara 17y agoThis site looks easy to maintain.
- avinashv 17y agoWell...he's made 20 bucks.
- sid 17y ago40 now, seems like there is a 'Z' and an '@' there now :D Seriously even if he makes 100K, heck 10K im going to label this guy as one of my idols LOL ...
- movix 17y agoI would have bought into that if only he'd done a Flash version.
- datawalke 17y agoI hope they know rel="nofollow" has to be added to all those links.
- wmeredith 17y agoIt doesn't matter anyway, Goog won't crawl more than 100 links on a page.