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for those that don't know.

It was a advertising gimic page. You buy pixels (1$ per) and make anything you want, they put your link to those pixels.

Don't click. (I clicked "guitars" and got a wrong OS notice, my adobe was out of date.. ).

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com




What I find interesting is that there's a handful of small pixel chunks on their that amount to something like "Paid" or "Reserved", so they don't have valid URLs at all. Feel like those folks missed out on tons of eyeballs a decade back.

Also wonder if there's any study on ongoing advertising impact on these links. For example, a number of links on their don't resolve anymore - are those domains worth anything more than a usual registar price?


After 15 years the original still shows up in a modern browser more or less exactly as it did back then. I wonder if this WebGL/javascript heavy thing will even load in 5 years.




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