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What impact did the ad have?
None. Nada. Zero. Apart from making me $500 ($700 in today's $) poorer.
I checked to see how much such an ad would cost:
>A simple 1-inch black-and-white classified style ad costs $6,066.
Pass.
How many people here didn’t realize that the dude who created the million dollar homepage went on to create the Calm app many years later? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tew
I only realized it when I curiously went to billiondollarhomepage.com and it got redirected to calm.com
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Please do! In this case it's actually relevant, so I don't know why you're against it.
I think the problem is that while this project has its own twist and not a 1-to-1 clone of the MDHP, ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money for the author.
You just described 90% of startups
Don't tell this reddit. Spez might bring back r/places with a twist..
What to do with that url?
I love this kind of internet archaeology. It's crazy to think how many sites like this have just been sitting untouched for years. What else is out there?
May I present Well Made Web, a gallery of inventive and distinguished websites: https://wmw.thran.uk One example is Internet Related Technologies which was reporting on new web standards during 1998-2001, last updated in 2001 and still online for all that time: https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/2.html#irt From IRT we have why use CSS, in case anyone still needs convinced: https://irt.org/articles/js135/
I’m really curious what the original owner of the domain thought the value of spending $200 on that little ad was. Like nobody is going to see it in the sea of other ads, and backlinks weren’t a thing then. Why else would you buy it?
I was involved in one of the logos on the MHP. It's not a very interesting story, but I'll share it anyway! Being permanently online, I saw MDH quite early on and when it began to get some initial press mentions, I figured it might go big. I hit up a friend/client of mine - Ben Neumann (RIP) - who was CEO of Globat, a hosting company. He was hugely into guerilla marketing techniques (like paying a guy to have their l…