I Bought a Million Dollar Piece of Internet History | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Head to sponsor www.squarespace.com/nostalgia... to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD....The Million Dollar HomePage was possibly, the most brilliant, yet simple internet idea ever. Conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, milliondollarhomepage.com represents the perfect piece of viral marketing, and one that still exists. I did some digging, collected some research, and during the process, managed to buy a piece of this important piece of internet history.
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24:09 I’m very glad the Internet Archive is still very active. It’s extremely helpful in showing today’s audience how things used to be, especially for sites that are long since defunct. I just wish YT weren’t so picky in allowing us to link to such sites in comments.
The Internet Archive is a truly incredible resource. Even more so, that they had such foresight to start it, in the 90s.
The Internet Archive is the only project I regularly donate to. Incredibly useful and very important.
YT allows me to put Internet Archive links in the descriptions of my own videos, but the moment I even attempt to describe how to reach such old sites in comments on other people’s videos, it’s hit or miss as to when / if I can. It’s quite frustrating when I want to quote original material from 1996.
My reply keeps getting auto-deleted
The Internet Archive is my source for game ROMs
I was trying to add a reply with the link but even when I replace all special characters with (dot) and (slash) it gets deleted.
My only issue with the internet archive is that they have removed Wayback archives by request of scummy individuals. That's why sites like archive today exist.
Apparently saying "search for no intro romsets on the internet archive, an entirely legal website which cannot be sued for copyright infringement" will get a comment automatically deleted.
I really liked the idea of owning a little part of Internet history. It took more work than I was expecting but I did manage to find an unregistered domain linked to from the Million Dollar Homepage. It’s now mine and, in a way, so is the 30x10 link on the site I guess.
Me too! I spent way too much time but got myself a small 10x10 exclamation mark directly under the large "free hosting" banner; piece of history.
I like the idea as well! Before I start searching, do you happen to know where to look for another unregistered domain?
Haha you guys need to learn to write scripts 😂
@@imarcus1973 I can do that, but it would still be less effort if someone happened to know of another free one. Was worth a try
@@SpoonOfDoom There are several de(German) ones left available. But, all the com domains are over 200 dollars.
I remember my dad telling me about this "A young guy sold a million pixels for a million dollars" I had no idea what he was talking about for all these years. I thought about it just the other day then this video pops up.
I had one of the articles in my English textbook telling about this homepage a while ago. Among others were Sk8er boy and Paperback writer songs' lyrics. Solutions was a trip
This was the first time I see someone actually integrate the ad break to the content of the video. Well done sir, I loved this!
Oh shit Ling's Cars is even on The Million Dollar Homepage. Her website is legendary! We looked at it in one of the first website development lectures I had at uni many years ago. She's been on Dragon's Den and a whole bunch of news articles, usually about her website or the Chinese missile launching lorry she has used as a Billboard for many years.
Pretty good way to tie in sponsor.
Dang. Yeah, that was smooth! **clap**
Yeah subliminal advertising, being illegal, sure is great.
Pete's got to make money somehow. And I found it very interesting. Must have passed me by in 2005.
@@Skellotronix That's not subliminal advertising. It's just advertising.
@@TheRealColBosch So making a video about a product and not telling the audience you're sponsored by it until a certain point in the video isn't subversive or subliminal? Then what the fuck is it?
This is marvelous. Also, I really enjoy the Uns Table.
"Things have gotten slightly worse since 2014, though not catastrophically." Ok, speak for yourself...
Oh god I just visited the site, and I started getting anxiety about every single link causing my computer to be infected with malware if I clicked them!
Loved this video. I was on the internet before web pages existed (late 1980s) and it makes me sad how much of the internet has went away. Sometimes it feels like everything has filtered down to twitter, facebook, and youtube.
There are those that claim the internet no longer exists. Based on your observation. If no one visits then it might as well not exist I suppose. I don't stray far from TH-cam. 😢
@@MichaelMaxwell747 more like if it can't be reachable. Google used to be this thing you could search for everything and they would try to find your terms verbatim, and a long string of words would relay sites that happened to have them. Now anything longer than four words risks "there weren't great matches for your search" or "you meant X" without the option to tell "no, I, the human master, meant what I meant, bad robot, bad robot!".
Every single time I look for Roboco I'm told "you mean Robocop", ffs
Ling is great. I'm lead to understand that her company isn't too shabby either.
Yes. My bad for misgendering her. But her site truly is a work of art www.lingscars.com/
@@Nostalgianerd I am so glad I clicked that link
And was on Dragons Den. Absolutely bonkers but very creative marketing mind. She's cycling the world at the mo although 'world events' have disrupted this a little
I lived in Gateshead for a while, went past the head office a fair bit, it had a rocket launcher vehicle outside
yo ling's background on his rental car page goes so hard honestly, lmao, the tiling on it is beautiful.
Really cool video :D The small companies clinging to the big ones with the bigger adverts was funny to me :)
Amazing what you can do with the right idea at exactly the right time. It would never work again.
Why was it exactly the right time?
Huge thanks for featuring one of my retro CGI pieces! And ofcourse a great video, as always.
It would be very interesting to see your take on Mirskey's Worst of the Web. I think Mirskey is still around to be interviewed, too. WotW was a daily stop for many of us in the early web days.
This is indeed nostalgic nerdiness! Good stuff!
It hurts to find out how old this is. I remember trying to open every link
Insanely interesting, I love stuff like this. It's nice to see some genuine internet history like this. Reminds me of Jason Scott's textfiles website, and BBS archiving work.
I remember this at the time and always wondered what happened to it. Great video!
It's so awesome to be a part of the unstable gallery and in a way, internet history! Thanks so much!
I had totally forgotten about this site, it was mesmerizing to me as a young tech nerd.
Ling from LingsCars is crazy but great!! I work in that industry and deal with her company on a regular basis, she no longer runs the company but it is still going :)
One of your best works my friend. Great job!
i loved this episode and the entire theme and feel ,fantastic !!! thank you
This has been one of my favorite videos of yours.
I love the uns table
The most informative and fun infomercial I've ever watched! No, really! :D
Love it. Even the source code is a thing of beauty.
One of your best videos so far, I'd say
Ling's a woman :)
Oh Shit. Sorry Ling.
Very informative video, thanks for this!
Great video, really enjoyed it.
Genius squarespace ad job man lol. Probably the best ad intertwined into a video iv seen yet
Honored to have had my art featured, thankyou sir.
Nice. I was in the same Computing A-level group as Alex Tew at Cirencester College back in 2002. I remember thinking at the time the site came out how genius and of its time an idea it was. Nice to see it still making waves so many years later!
I once saw a hedge
pretty cool
Thanks. Glad you agree.
Yahoo killed itself when it became impossible to tell who bought their way onto the key word and the organic results.
This is such a good idea. Wish I had it myself.
In a documentary 10 years from now, this will be the "progenitor NFT"
I often think about this project, this is a great "fill in the blanks" for my memories, thank you
Ling (Ling's Cars) is female. She went on Dragons Den and turned them down
Pretty embarrassing to not research something that he talks about.....
@@Skellotronix It's more embarrassing to be so intolerant of mistakes, that you focus on one omission, rather than a project as a whole.
@@Skellotronix Of all the interesting information shared in this video, THAT is your takeaway?
@@Nostalgianerd Some people, once it's pointed out to them, admit they made a mistake earnestly and readily and, if appropriate, attempt to make amends. On youtube that might involve an annotation, a pinned comment or a note in the video description (none of which currently contain an apology for this error despite your reply being more than an hour old, seems plenty of time for such a small thing).
Saying, "Yes, I made a mistake," is often less embarrassing than not acknowledging it and replying with the equivalent of, "Well, you made a mistake and it was worse!"
@@Nostalgianerd Tolerance of mistakes is how we get more of them, my good chap.
I've never heard of this site before, it was very interesting to see, and always interesting to see how small simple ideas can become popular and make loads of money.
brilliant video.. thanks for making/posting.. :)
Thanks for watching!
"It's one that adblocker can't even save you from" had me lol.
I’m a month shy of 45, so I remember this well! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I love the Unstable Gallery!! I really enjoyed all the different styles the artists produced.
But wow, I absolutely loathe the homepage design hahaha I hate it so much that I almost didn't click on this video. I literally hate all of it. That reddit picture was so much better and truly beautiful
This is amazing. I had completely forgot about that website, it's one of those ideas that make me feel stupid for not coming up with it and executing it.
Thank you for that tour of the post-Millennium Internet. It inspired me to buy the expired domain linked to the yellow dot on the bottom edge at the right-hand side.
Excellent! I'll keep an eye on it.
Absolutely remember this site!!!
Every time someone asks me about SEO tools I mention Screaming Frog and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about. That said, your endorsement makes me all happy
6:53 Made me almost choke on my cinnamon flakes haha
I remember this story. It was mentioned in a local PC gaming magazine. I had completely forgot about it
Interesting stuff. I'm surprised I'd never heard of that site before. Off to have a look now.
Now I wonder how much traffic will be redirected from the Million Dollar Page to these domains that are now yours, compared to them via other means over a course of time.
2005 sounds really late for this kind of internet shenanigans. This sounds more like something from the 90s.
Went to the page, found your links and clicked! It took a minute, but I found them.
I was interested in r/place and now I have found a new point of interest
thank you
excellent show!
I knew Alex a bit back in the day, when I was at Nottingham. Still 'FB friends' lol. Good guy, great idea and gone on to great things!
Like what
He's the co-founder of Calm
fascinating story. thanks!
This a very interesting video. Thank you.
wow. its pretty insane how simple little ideas like this that most people would consider dumb or pointless always blow up and are successes 😯
Isn't the Goatse site one of these things but for Etherium now?
You are an arse for saying that
Fascinating!
Straya: Bunnings snags.
Honestly the most Aussie thing ever
I was so jealous of this guy, I wish I'd thought of the idea myself. Sounds so simple. But then, I'm not an entrepreneur.
TH-camrs: Makes sponsor segments you can skip that have nothing to do with the content
Nostalgia Nerd: Makes sponsor segment part of the actual content
That is called subversive or subliminal advertising and is NOT supposed to happen. You are supposed to know when you are advertised to.
@@Skellotronix I still knew it was an ad since he explicitly said that was the sponsor segment. He just did it in a way that meant skipping it would also skip part of the video. It's far from the smoothest segue I've seen, I've seen ones that were so smooth the ad was over before I even realised I'd been advertised to...
@@Leah96xxx The whole fuckin video is an ad about ads he got paid for and did little research on, fucking up calling Ling a him when NN should be doing the research on everything he talks about. What's the point of giving this guy money if other people have to correct him and do more research/his research? You don't buy the same shitty product twice unless you're stupid, which 99% of the internet is. Have fun living a lie though, ignorance is bliss.
I remember this thing from way back. I thought the e-Bay listing got removed because of so many fake bids that it got sold in a different way but anyways this website was amazing. Also hosting it cost next to nothing as it's just an HTML page with 1 giant image.
I dont remember this at all, and I am very glad I saw this video, because this stuff is right up my alley.
Had totally forgotten about this site
This was a brilliant episode...
UNS TABLE. Brilliant!
I liked the internet when it was crappier and less corporate. You could avoid Rupert Murdoch and his ilk, avoid car companies and slick advertising and just enjoy weird stuff made by smart guys and girls in their spare room. I miss finding crap like 'we built a full size Millennium Flacon out of polystyrene and lumber' instead of slick but still just as shit influencers and samey same youtube shysters.
That's very cool!
"The Zero Dollar Challenge", while funny to me, is probably a good sign he jumped the shark. xD
Lovely re bro
I know the Tew brothers from racing. Bloody smart pair!
Ooh, They Live references with a modern context? Nice.
I used to work for Cartridge Save (top left block). Wonder how well the ad paid off over the years.
I tried to use shell companies to build a goatse, but I was shot down by the Cliñtons.
Good one!
I love that IP Chicken is still in there. I still use that site.
Bravo to the person who did the UNS-Table picture 😂
I gotta try this!
He's getting rich from 2005 and beyond...
Just curious if i wanted to make a website how would i make a gallery? A area where you could just post pictures.
I thought it was stupid when it came out. But it's really sort of a metaphor for the internet itself, or rather how it is seen by marketroids: a blank space on which to scribble advertisements, or which you can sell parts of to admen to become rich.
Has the MDHP ever needed to be updated? Some ads use other company's logos, e.g. ebay and Yellow Pages, suppose they complained about unauthorized use.
I think about this site all the time, was such a good idea
ALL the time?
@@swanningabout Yes, every hour of every day.
God I loved this part of internet history.
I've never heard of that site before!
Fresh Nerd!
I'm actually familiar with the artist who made the fursuit in the image on the Unstable Gallery.
Edit: Their Twitter has been taken over by an NFT account. So the same thing that's happened to a lot of the links on the Million Dollar Homepage happened to the Unstabe Gallery.
I caved and bought a link when I finally found one that was available. Only registered it for a year though, might put up a gag there or something.
May or may not have tabbed away from this for like 10 minutes trying to find the same Thomas theme cover that he used
(I never did find it)
Batracer, an online racing manament game, also has a similar pixel based sponsorship section.
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Are these videos compressed more than they used to be before uploading? I keep seeing pretty bad compression as of late...
oh my, I remember this!
Very interesting