A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.
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The Million Dollar Homepage sits in Crowd Experiments under Weird, filed as a minute.
About this category: Shared spaces where everyone acts at once. Sometimes it becomes art, usually it becomes a mess, and the mess is the interesting part.
Yes. The Million Dollar Homepage is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Million Dollar Homepage without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file The Million Dollar Homepage as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
Pixel canvas laid over a world map where you claim a handful of tiles at a time and defend them against the neighbouring country.
Infinite shared canvas of plain text where anyone can type anywhere. Scroll far enough and you find things nobody meant you to read.
Real research that needs human eyes: classify galaxies, transcribe ships' logs or count penguins, and end up in a published paper.
Telephone played with drawings: describe a picture, draw a description, and watch the chain derail over twelve steps.
The listing that has catalogued live text MUDs since 1994, and still tells you which of them have people logged in tonight.
A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.
A hand-maintained index of free books online, run out of Penn since before search engines were any good.
Millions of uploaded Minecraft skins plus an editor, which is the closest thing that game has ever had to a fashion scene.
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