Re:The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later
by jlarocco on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:47PM
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Funny story about that.
I worked on an internship back in 2004, and one morning my manager walked in and asked a coworker and me something like, "Do you think people would buy pixels on a website?" We asked what he meant, and he explained this exact idea.
Of course we told him it was dumb and nobody would buy pixels and it would be pointless, and how would anybody find it, etc., and he decided not to do anything with it.
Then, about a year later, this site came around, made the news, and sold out in no time.
Like you said, there's a lot more to it then just putting the site online, but I've always felt a little bad for dismissing it so quickly.
I worked on an internship back in 2004, and one morning my manager walked in and asked a coworker and me something like, "Do you think people would buy pixels on a website?" We asked what he meant, and he explained this exact idea.
Of course we told him it was dumb and nobody would buy pixels and it would be pointless, and how would anybody find it, etc., and he decided not to do anything with it.
Then, about a year later, this site came around, made the news, and sold out in no time.
Like you said, there's a lot more to it then just putting the site online, but I've always felt a little bad for dismissing it so quickly.