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Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.

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The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

The ads also still get traffic, A while back I wrote a script to list all the domains that had expired and bought one at random for shits and giggles. GA reported about 100 uniques per month.

that's a pretty interesting idea. I did something similar a while back to grab expired image hosting websites that still had a ton of images linked to them.

expired domains are a continual source of fun.

Hilarious! I just scraped all the domains and did nslookups on all of them to see which where expired. Then I registered the one with the largest area (milliondollarconnect.com occupied 1000 pixels) at x1, y1 = 710, 750 (the ad that looks like a glassy oval). Will report back on traffic.

wow ... I just spotted ling's cars! Besides 'The Times', I've not spotted anything which I recognise on there. And I'm kinda surprised there aren't more porn adverts, to be honest.

Thanks to your comment, I discovered Ling's website, it is a work of art! I love it!

[0]https://www.lingscars.com/ [1]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/li...

Epic :D

View Source ;).

Advertisers are now getting more value being viewed on my 4K display scaled for the website. A dollar for four pixels!

They're getting more pixels but those pixels are smaller!

The plight of promising an object but not a dimension! :)

The founder of that, Alex Tew, is still around and doing things.

Last I saw, he was running the 'Calm' app.

Did not know Calm was built by him. Thanks for the info.

Him and the guy who created Moshi Monsters and firebox.com. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/moshi-monste...

I actually made something kinda similar: http://www.ipaidthemost.com/

Every once in a while someone stumbles onto it and drops another dollar in, but I haven't remembered to even bring it up in over a year. I feel like it's just novel enough that if I ever got around to promoting it, it might get to a vaguely reasonable amount of money.

Something like that is still up, albeit with a cryptocurrency: http://iota.show

I know, it is not exactly identical to what you are saying, but this is what came to mind, and the idea is very similar, if not the same.

Made my mobile Chrome app freeze and crash.

I am sorry about that! I wouldn't have known it would do that, I do not use my mobile to browse the Internet because it does freeze more often than not, and when it does not, it is slow. :/

It should work from your PC though.

Off topic, but maybe you should try Firefox for Android? I have it on mobile (with uMatrix admittedly) and it hasn't crashed on me for ages...

It is OK, my phone is really old and not suitable for surfing the Internet. Thanks though!

Same here. Fortunately I've searched for "pixel" before making a redundant comment :^)

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