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MadeInDex 馃摪馃寧
@madeindex@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp last month

馃捀 Did you know about the guy who wanted to become a millionaire, so he made a website with 1000 脳 1000 pixels and then sold them for 1$ each?

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

That guy is so savage, he made a million dollars from it and still can't be bothered to pay for an SSL certificate 馃構

Dedicated to @xexyl, for all the amazing stories he shared with me!

#story #millionaire #website #web #internet #ads #advertisment #smart #genius #website #websites #homepage #funny #fun #read #billboard

The Million Dollar Homepage - Wikipedia

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Federation Bot
@Federation_Bot replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@madeindex @xexyl
Hello greetings from the kyankwanzi young environmental conservation club in Uganda.

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@madeindex thanks! No I didn't know about it. Sounds like a patent troll. I'm reminded of some company trying to patent floating point arithmetic related algorithms. Ridiculous. If they had succeeded it would be a dangerous precedent. Frankly medicine and scientific and mathematical discoveries should never be patented. And yet...pharmacology is an example that is more complicated. But those are not actually discoveries per se.

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@madeindex and as for the cert issue it's even more ridiculous since there is now Let's Encrypt. Also at least one of the sites (just checked) is 'expired'. Thanks for sharing this.

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Bornach
@bornach@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@madeindex @xexyl
Back when selling pixels as a side hustle didn't have anything to do with crypto or the blockchain
https://youtu.be/VuJFvgfBV54

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@bornach @madeindex well I wish they didn't have that crypto stuff. Virtual economies are so unpredictable. I'm not an expert in crypto but I am very familiar with virtual / digital economies having been a developer and player of a MUD for years. Whereas real currency is backed by gold the cryptocurrency is not. I don't know if I'm supposed to feel sorry for people who have lost a lot from it but I don't. I hope it never is backed by gold. Thanks for the video. It seems interesting.

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@madeindex yes it probably was okay then but the question is was the links to itself okay? I can't help but think it wasn't. The only way that could happen is if they changed providers (which probably happened). But that's immaterial. The point is it is broken now.

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@madeindex not me, no ... I didn't have a website then. Well maybe I did. I don't know now. It could have been over two decades now though an older domain (that I still have but haven't updated in aeons). Or did you mean something else maybe, perhaps figuratively?

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@madeindex that is clear yes. Not really surprising either. But it's also very unsurprising that it's broken and many of the links are also dead.

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MadeInDex 馃摪馃寧
@madeindex@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@xexyl it was like buying an ad, focused on companies

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MadeInDex 馃摪馃寧
@madeindex@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@xexyl 2005 it was good marketing for a company and probably even got you good traffic I think :)

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MadeInDex 馃摪馃寧
@madeindex@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@xexyl it's old 2005 , back then was probably ok

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@madeindex maybe, maybe, but it seems more like a scam to me. And yet... if people think it's worth it who am I to judge? If they want it there then so be it. It seems wasteful. But I don't know.

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Cody Boone Ferguson
@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp last month

@madeindex well anyway the site is basically broken anyway. Lots of dead links even to his own site. It's spectacular. Spectacularly bad. Although..the image does look amusing (to me). Mostly it's so ridiculous and baffling. Or something like that.

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