The “Million Dollar Homepage” as Decaying Digital Artifact

in #web7 years ago

Some of you might remember the million dollar homepage, a project launched by British student Alex Tew in 2005. It allowed you to buy pixel space on its homepage to advertise your own business / website. Looking at the page today it seems it has retained its styling from the 2000's and is frozen as digital artifact. Good ol' times :)

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Very cool, thanks for sharing! From reading the title I thought it was referring to the decay the oldschool static website has experienced over the years. Originally any .com address with a few links and paragraphs would be golden. Now, unless you have a freshly updated blog on your site, dynamic content like videos etc, you might as well roll over and go to www.heaven.com 😇

I found "Healthcare" but no "Obamacare" hahaha. Yeah it´s rly an artifact :)

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