That was my first "business idea". After seeing it take off so rapidly. I setup first clone in my country and donated all profits to charity. It was not much, about $2000 in total but I learned a ton of useful stuff which helped me later to progress to bigger and more profitable things. What I learned back then is that if something works in one country, you can usually replicate it with some success elsewhere. I have taken that lesson and most of my successes in recent years been due to this "copy" strategy.
The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)
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#12I guess not entirely good way to advertise since quite a lot of them are either non existent or the domain shows something completely different :D
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#14Forgot all about this. I toyed with the idea of buying some ad space when there was still some space available. In fact I remember when it was 80% free still.
I think I'm right in saying he went on to try another iteration of the pixel idea; http://www.pixelotto.com
By his twitter, it seems he's now running an iPhone meditation app at http://calm.com
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#15An 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 designers thought 10x10 pixels was plenty to make a pretty picture. You could then buy a square for one hundred dollars; a dollar a pixel. And if people clicked on the pretty picture you had made in your square they would be taken to your homepage. If you had lots of money or worked for one of those new dot-com's you could buy more than one square so your designer could make a bigger picture.
Now, you can probably guess why it was called the million Dollar Homepage (Hint 1000 x 1000 = 1 million), and as you can see all the squares were sold so the architect reached his goal, won his bet and retreated back to the matrix to devise new ingenious devious ideas.
Edit: changed ten dollars to one hundred dollars - thanks for pointing it out jgrubb.
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#16An 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…
I remember he did this to pay off his tuition fees.
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#17An 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…
Seeing as we're talking of just 8 years ago, I don't think Stallmann was still young.
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#19Nostalgic!
Btw how did it go viral back then? Curious. Was it cause of his story? Pay for tuition.
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#20An 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…
Seeing as we're talking of just 8 years ago, I don't think Stallmann was still young.
Remember this is Internet time (not to be confused with Swatch Internet time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time)) which is a whole different beast to normal time. I clearly remember both my dot-com coach and my advisory board telling me over champagne brunch that Internet time was at least 5 times normal time. This would make it 40 years ago, and not 8.