My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

#1

Post by matthieucan » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 5:11 PM UTC

My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
matthieu.io

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

#2

Post by irtefa » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 7:17 PM UTC

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?

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by Borg3 » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 7:22 PM UTC

irtefa wrote: post #2

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?

You like archeology? Ok, have fun here...

http://borg.uu3.net/ldetweil/

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by thomas8787 » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 8:54 PM UTC

Brings back memories. I bought a copycat domain name in those days. A couple of months later someone reached out and bought it for like $100 IIRC.

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

#5

Post by matthieucan » Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 10:48 PM UTC

irtefa wrote: post #2

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?

My favourite is http://perdu.com, from 1998. I've been using it with ping when testing internet connectivity for years

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by HeckFeck » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 11:51 AM UTC

irtefa wrote: post #2

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/

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by nojs » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 12:15 PM UTC

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?

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by varnaud » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 12:15 PM UTC

matthieucan wrote: post #5

irtefa wrote: post #2

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?

My favourite is http://perdu.com , from 1998. I've been using it with ping when testing internet connectivity for years

Wow, I had completely forgot about this website. Thanks for sharing it, now I know where I am :)

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

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Post by conradfr » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 12:45 PM UTC

Come to think of it, MillionDollarHomepage could have offered "pixels owners" of dead businesses to resell their space while taking a cut.

Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden

#10

Post by PurpleRamen » Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 12:56 PM UTC

Don't tell this reddit. Spez might bring back r/places with a twist..