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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by graphitezepp on Sunday July 23, 2017 @11:52AM (#14832820)
It's just a random example of something silly going viral. Stuff like this definately could work today (potato salad kickstarter was a thing) but any individuals attempt probably wouldn't work, it mostly comes down to luck.
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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by tyingq on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:31PM (#14833041)
Not a million bucks, but $71k for something very recent...that was even more upfront about how useless it was. https://uetoken.com
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Re:The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact by kurthr on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:02PM (#14832882)
I agree, and it seems another more ironic meaning of, "even monkeys fall from trees"... see the center of the page.

I always wondered why he didn't allow changing the pixels/URLs and reselling them. Should have been easy to set up and an ongoing revenue stream.

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