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Sure, 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.
In 2005, mobile web meant WAP.
At least one of the ads still works. The place I worked at back then jumped on it early (maybe only 9 or 10 other ads at that point). They paid more for a few pixels than I earned that month!
My ad still works. Although I always have trouble finding it since it was just a 10x10.
Almost all of the links in the advertisements seem dead, sadly.
On a half-serious note, what longevity did you expect from companies spending their marketing bucks on stuff like this? But yeah, links on the internet survive much longer than the sites they point to; when I am hunting for information on something, I encounter at least one dead link per hour.
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People remember who did something first, and who did something best. If you're neither of those people, then try making your ideas faster or better
Alternatively, if you can't be first in a category then invent a new category in which you are first. Who was the first human in space? Who was the second? Who was the first human to orbit the Earth? Who was the second? Who was the first human to set foot on the moon? The second? The third?
This was an early example of internet crowd funding.
I don't think so. He just got a bunch of customers to pay for advertisement on his site. Like any business supported on ads, basically.
The lines between crowdfunding, accepting preorders, and just running a business are fairly blurry.
W3 Link Validator.
List of broken links and other issues
There are issues with the URLs listed below. The table summarizes the issues and suggested actions by HTTP response status code.
Code Occurrences What to do
(N/A) 24 The link was not checked due to robots exclusion rules. Check the link manually, and see also the link checker documentation on robots exclusion.
(N/A) 110 The hostname could not be resolved. Check the link for typos.
400 4 This is usually the sign of a malformed URL that cannot be parsed by the server. Check the syntax of the link.
403 12 The link is forbidden! This needs fixing. Usual suspects: a missing index.html or Overview.html, or a missing ACL.
404 20 The link is broken. Double-check that you have not made any typo, or mistake in copy-pasting. If the link points to a resource that no longer exists, you may want to remove or fix the link.
405 2 The server does not allow HTTP HEAD requests, which prevents the Link Checker to check the link automatically. Check the link manually.
406 9 The server isn't capable of responding according to the Accept* headers sent. This is likely to be a server-side issue with negotiation.
500 14 This is a server side problem. Check the URI.
503 1 The server cannot service the request, for some unknown reason.
An explanation for those who've never seen this before: A long long time ago on an Internet far from here a young man had an idea. His idea was simple but genius. He would make a homepage (as they were called back then) with a grid of 100 by 100 squares each ten pixels across. Each square could hold an image 10x10 pixels. One million pixels. Back when we didn't have retina displays and Stallmann was still young desig…
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do you know what happened after that? did it hold for long, or was it like a couple of months adventure? but mostly.... what about the money?
Well, once the site had filled up, there was not really any more demand. Ean and myself, who were doing the orders, went off to do other things. I was working a full time job at the time as well, so that was kind of a relief, because even at 25 years old, 16 hour days take their toll! I'm English and typically squeamish about money but suffice to say, the site really did make a million dollars (before tax). Alex paid…
Thanks for sharing!