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The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Advertisers are now getting more value being viewed on my 4K display scaled for the website. A dollar for four pixels!
I'm reminded how, last year, at work, they changed the length limits on performance reviews from characters to words. They found that character limits resulted in men having more room to express themselves than women -- "she" is longer than "he"; "girl" is longer than "guy", and "female" is longer than "male". Twitter also has interesting per-country dynamics because it uses a character limit. In Chinese or Japanese,…
More info: https://www.nic.rich/
Jokes aside, this business model is not going to see any kind of wide adoption.
In the early days messages were limited by the number of wires, the speed of human operators at both ends and electrical degradation of long wires. 20 bits per second was a good speed. Physicists like Faraday and Maxwell figured out how to lessen degradation. Inventors like Thomas Edison figured out how to multiplex multiple signals on the same wire. And how transmit messages at superhuman speeds with tape players and recorders at both ends.
It's such an obvious idea, and it has been around for as long as spam e-mail has been a problem. I absolutely do not understand why it has not yet been adopted for all e-mail traffic worldwide. If an e-mail were to cost just one cent, it would never add up to an amount that a normal person would even notice, yet it would solve the problem of spam e-mail over night.
Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
Every once in a while someone stumbles onto it and drops another dollar in, but I haven't remembered to even bring it up in over a year. I feel like it's just novel enough that if I ever got around to promoting it, it might get to a vaguely reasonable amount of money.
I'm reminded how, last year, at work, they changed the length limits on performance reviews from characters to words. They found that character limits resulted in men having more room to express themselves than women -- "she" is longer than "he"; "girl" is longer than "guy", and "female" is longer than "male". Twitter also has interesting per-country dynamics because it uses a character limit. In Chinese or Japanese,…
^ I also find it culturally interesting that basically every female descriptor I can think of is more characters than the male counterpart.
Over the years, there have been efforts in feminist and academic circles to introduce alternate spellings that are not derived this way. [0]