Million Dollar web page

December 29, 2005 11:54 AM

www.milliondollarhomepage.com puts kid through college... and then some. Add this to the "why didn't I think of that" list.
posted by Witty (37 comments total)

yahoo.com story
posted by Witty at 11:55 AM on December 29, 2005

Add this to the "why didn't I think of that" list.

That's ok, we already did that for you! :)
posted by slater at 11:56 AM on December 29, 2005

Saw this back when he only had a handful of tiny ads up... never thought he'd make it this far. Then again, getting written up in the WSJ doesn't hurt.
posted by rxrfrx at 11:57 AM on December 29, 2005

Double post gets kid kicked out of college.
posted by Plutor at 11:57 AM on December 29, 2005

Shit.
posted by Plutor at 11:57 AM on December 29, 2005

Hi Plutor!
posted by slater at 11:58 AM on December 29, 2005

I I love love double double posts posts..
posted by sdrawkcab at 11:58 AM on December 29, 2005

Hmmm... a search on the URL didn't reveal it as a double. Sorry.
posted by Witty at 11:59 AM on December 29, 2005

Witty- so did the auto-doublepost thing not find it when you previewed?
posted by rxrfrx at 12:01 PM on December 29, 2005

I knew this would come up again once he got close to selling all the ad space. :)
posted by jca at 12:01 PM on December 29, 2005

Witty: "Hmmm... a search on the URL didn't reveal it as a double. Sorry."

A URL search is a good place to start, but you could have searched for the words "million dollar homepage" and it's the first hit.
posted by Plutor at 12:02 PM on December 29, 2005

Pepsi blech
posted by Tommy Gnosis at 12:04 PM on December 29, 2005

Didn't even know there was such a thing... so if it did, I didn't notice. I previewed to make sure it "looked" right and that the links worked... then posted.

In the past, I always would search for the URL as a sure-fire way to make sure it hadn't been posted before. But that doesn't seem to work anymore. I searched for:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
http://milliondollarhomepage.com
www.milliondollarhomepage.com
milliondollarhomepage.com

If a link to any one of those had ever been posted, a search would say so. But I guess that was the old MeFi search, not the Google-style. So, my fault.
posted by Witty at 12:04 PM on December 29, 2005

The above is in response to:

Witty- so did the auto-doublepost thing not find it when you previewed?
posted by Witty at 12:05 PM on December 29, 2005

lost past!!!eleventyone
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:05 PM on December 29, 2005

See, this, for me, doesn't fall under the "why didn't I think of that" list. I did think of it, and dismissed it as completely loony. Even now I can't see how the idea worked. I'm skeptical that he actually pulled in a million dollars -- or even a hundred thousand dollars, despite his claims that he has. Or maybe the world is just a little weirder than I thought it was. After all, Golden Palace is willing to pay thousands of dollars for a grilled cheese sandwich....
posted by solid-one-love at 12:07 PM on December 29, 2005

I remember having two Steves as a kid, one for my ninth birthday, and another for the following christmas due to the first one being trashed by my mates because i was the only one in the street to have one.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:12 PM on December 29, 2005

There should be a link for deleted posts. The comments on why they're deleted are the best part.
posted by movilla at 12:19 PM on December 29, 2005

movilla, get GreaseMonkey and the MeFi Deleted Posts script.
posted by rxrfrx at 12:21 PM on December 29, 2005

one million flowers bloom!
posted by OmieWise at 12:28 PM on December 29, 2005

Dear people who insist on writing "Pepsi Blue" at the slightest provocation - it is not always appropriate to do so. It's about as annoying as the misuse of "godwin!" and it really does make you look a little silly.
posted by longbaugh at 12:29 PM on December 29, 2005

Right on, longbaugh.
posted by ibmcginty at 12:34 PM on December 29, 2005

Pike!
posted by shoepal at 12:35 PM on December 29, 2005

I mean poppo!
posted by shoepal at 12:35 PM on December 29, 2005

Pepsi Blue.
posted by soiled cowboy at 12:35 PM on December 29, 2005

Sorry, I was slightly provoked.
posted by soiled cowboy at 12:36 PM on December 29, 2005

Drop it like it's hot!
posted by furtive at 12:40 PM on December 29, 2005

Why don't you just start the $500,000 home page and undercut him?
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 12:42 PM on December 29, 2005

Drop it like it's hot!
posted by OmieWise at 12:45 PM on December 29, 2005

Why don't you just start the $500,000 home page and undercut him?

That's exactly what I thought! It's been done, though.
posted by sharpener at 12:46 PM on December 29, 2005

Someone already did, strangeLDT. There are also a number of $100,000 web pages. I also have my doubts that any of those sites made much money; many of those sites gave away a lot of space to boost interest. Also, surely bandwidth isn't free yet, so it's not like Million Dollar Boy and his imitators had no expenses.
posted by solid-one-love at 12:46 PM on December 29, 2005

Thanks rxrfrx. I'll check it out.
posted by movilla at 12:46 PM on December 29, 2005

I, like about a hundred other people, started a clone of this page (link in my diary if you're interested) at reduced prices (penny/pixel in my case). I made about $90US on it, enough to cover my hosting for a bit. That was an immediate but small influx of cash for ~2 hours work, and no one has contacted me for quite a while since.
posted by Kickstart70 at 12:46 PM on December 29, 2005

Damn, I just started the $5 home page. I am a business visionary and king hell futurist.

*checks bandwidth usage, compares it to monthly cap*

Uh. Oh fuck. Damn. Shit.
posted by loquacious at 12:48 PM on December 29, 2005

I bought one pixel. Try to find it.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:57 PM on December 29, 2005

I found it, crash.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 1:07 PM on December 29, 2005

When you think about it, MeFi is the 150,000 dollar homepage. Sort of.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 1:28 PM on December 29, 2005