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The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by StavrosK »

Houshalter wrote: post #37

Gwern has a good summary of the research in this: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs >In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the Internet. McCown et al 2005 discovered that half of the URLs cited in D-Lib Magazine articles were no longer accessible 10 years after publication [the irony!], and other studies have shown link rot in academic li…

Very interesting, I was thinking just an hour ago that IPFS would be perfect for references in academic literature, as it's immutable and always available.

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by StavrosK »

amygdyl wrote: post #87
Animats wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an automatic system on Wikipedia now which attempts to rescue dead links by finding the page in the Internet Archive and updating the Wikipedia page accordingly.

What about personal caches? I know that few people likely keep locally saved Web pages in near line accessibility. But if you only build the tool, I would happily mount the nearly 5 terabytes of ULTRASCSI drives I've got in storage, which were largely Squid cache snapshots, from my office WAN proxy box.

You should add them to IPFS, it sounds ideal for your use case.

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by _0w8t »

jlangenauer wrote: post #60
sixQuarks wrote: post #54

I actually purchased a $300 spot on this. I did get quite a few clicks, but very low-quality traffic. Mostly, I got lots of offers from copycat sites to join their "billion dollar" homepage or whatnot. It's crazy how many copycats came out, very unoriginal thinking going on.

I remember that time - there were even people trying to sell guides purporting to teach people how to set up their own million-dollar homepage!

Like the saying that to make money on Forex one should give lectures how to make money on Forex.

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by StavrosK »

komali2 wrote: post #72
enthdegree wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Yo app was valued at +5m usd less than 3 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Wow I thought that was just a silicon valley joke haha

It was. Just not Silicon Valley the show.

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by chillingeffect »

amygdyl wrote: post #87
Animats wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an automatic system on Wikipedia now which attempts to rescue dead links by finding the page in the Internet Archive and updating the Wikipedia page accordingly.

What about personal caches? I know that few people likely keep locally saved Web pages in near line accessibility. But if you only build the tool, I would happily mount the nearly 5 terabytes of ULTRASCSI drives I've got in storage, which were largely Squid cache snapshots, from my office WAN proxy box.

Yes does anything like this exist? I would love to remember all of my surfing. I currently bookmark nearly 100% of my visited links.

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Post by zargon »

Animats wrote: post #74
Houshalter wrote: post #37

Gwern has a good summary of the research in this: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs >In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the Internet. McCown et al 2005 discovered that half of the URLs cited in D-Lib Magazine articles were no longer accessible 10 years after publication [the irony!], and other studies have shown link rot in academic li…

There's an automatic system on Wikipedia now which attempts to rescue dead links by finding the page in the Internet Archive and updating the Wikipedia page accordingly.

It should also do the reverse -- find links in wikipedia that aren't in archive.org and initiate an archival task.

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Post by jacquesm »

sixQuarks wrote: post #54

I actually purchased a $300 spot on this. I did get quite a few clicks, but very low-quality traffic. Mostly, I got lots of offers from copycat sites to join their "billion dollar" homepage or whatnot. It's crazy how many copycats came out, very unoriginal thinking going on.

> It's crazy how many copycats came out, very unoriginal thinking going on.

Any successful thing on the internet that hits the media will sooner or later be copied (usually sooner). Remember 'awesomenessreminders.com', the story had barely been told or the first copycats were up. And that was the HN audience doing the copying.

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by scrollaway »

StavrosK wrote: post #94
komali2 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow I thought that was just a silicon valley joke haha

It was. Just not Silicon Valley the show.

I had the same reaction when I saw the blood-boy thing going on last season. Then I found out where the idea came from...

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by hellbanner »

A more modern variant, https://catbillboard.wordpress.com/

"Million Dollar Cat Billboard project sells 10 000 “squares” (places on a billboard) $100 dollars each to make world’s first ever cat billboard and put it up in 10 cities around the globe for a month. To proudly show your cat to the world you need to buy at least one square. But of course you can buy as many of them as you wish as long as they are available."

Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

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Post by dan1234 »

aidos wrote: post #36

Would be interesting to know how many people on the million dollar homepage are on HN. I imagine there's a wonderful cross over between the two groups. Even though its with a business we're not doing now, my business partner and I are on there. Edit: don't think it deserves a downvote - is it not an interesting question? I bet there are loads of serial entrepreneurs on both

Pretty sure the owner of "Ling's Cars" has posted here before.

On the million dollar homepage, she has the face just under the Union flag.

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