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Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by petercooper on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:22AM (#37508670)
I was involved in one of the logos on the MHP. It's not a very interesting story, but I'll share it anyway!

Being permanently online, I saw MDH quite early on and when it began to get some initial press mentions, I figured it might go big. I hit up a friend/client of mine - Ben Neumann (RIP) - who was CEO of Globat, a hosting company. He was hugely into guerilla marketing techniques (like paying a guy to have their logo as a tattoo or sneaking a Saddam Hussein themed ad into a popular computer magazine - a story in itself) so this was totally up his street and he immediately bought the large space now marked "FREE HOSTING" in the top middle.

At the time, Globat used to pay quite juicy commissions to folks for hosting referrals (equivalent to about the whole first year of hosting fees) so even if he ended up with 50 signups from it, it would have broken even.

Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by conradfr on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:45AM (#37508963)
It's funny because when I went to check the page today it's the one that caught my eyes.
Re:My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden by matthieucan on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:26PM (#37515067)
Very interesting! I definitely clicked on that logo when exploring the page