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Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by ekianjo »

pavs wrote: post #53
mixmax wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's a dot-com coach?

Probabaly some snake oil guy who tells how where to put your money wisely after the dot-com crash.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by jaynos »

ars wrote: post #26

The most interesting thing about this is how many of the links don't go anywhere anymore. After a few minutes searching I was only able to find one site that still worked.

Also interesting is how many links I am afraid to click while at work.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by jfarmer »

garethadams wrote: post #47
forcer wrote: post #11

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…

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?

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by jcmoscon »

jfarmer wrote: post #64
garethadams wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I remember this from a book. Was it 22 immutable laws of marketing?

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by dabeeeenster »

Jare wrote: post #46
nwh wrote: post #34

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.

Why do you assume it is a bad idea? People are still clicking on the links, right?

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by runn1ng »

kayoone wrote: post #57
runn1ng wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook was a very different site back then. People still used MySpace. iPhone was still not introduced for 2 years. Apples computers were named iBook and PowerBook and run on PPC for one more year.

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.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by jerf »

kayoone wrote: post #24
mixmax wrote: post #15

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…

This was 2005, so its not that long ago, we already had facebook for example ;) Still the idea was pretty novel and worked, many tried to copy the approach and failed. Even Alex Tew, the guy behind the site, came back later with a Photobook and some other pixel based business idea (pixelotto) but couldnt replicate the success.

If you look at it, you can see how many of the pixel buys were made by people themselves trying to copy the idea for "pixel ads". Even the day it came out I thought it was funny that people could think that would actually become a "thing". Ad space was too cheap to sell for that to be anything but a one-off gimmick. A cute gimmick, but obviously a gimmick from the moment it happened.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by return0 »

mixmax wrote: post #15

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…

Notably, it was the media attention that made the idea work.
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