The ASCII Million Dollar Page

http://asciimilliondollarpage.com/

by btw0 • 17 years ago

33 35 17 years ago

asciimilliondollarpage.com

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

$20 per character

Good luck with that ;)

metachris• 17 years ago

The page even says that the "First screen is for internal use, not for sale" lol

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

Dude must have cash enough, that's $40K down the tubes right there.

arithmetic• 17 years ago

Hey, I've seen weirder stuff on the internet where someone actually made money. You never know :)

ido• 17 years ago

Hilarious!

For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a spoof of this page: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Which although seems pretty pointless, got a ton of publicity a while ago.

EDIT: and apparently actually made its author a million dollars!

edd• 17 years ago

The poor thing about the actual million dollar homepage is the creator (a university student trying to make some money to pay of his student debt) then got DDOS attacked to oblivion and had to spend a large amount of the money trying to keep the site up. The DDOS attackers obviously knew he had come in to a large amount of money and held him to ransom.

davecardwell• 17 years ago

I hadn’t heard about that. Sounds like the attack itself and the resulting investigation weren’t very successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage#DDo...

tezza• 17 years ago

The original fitted in approximately 1 browser screen. This ASCII one involves scrolling.

est• 17 years ago

> Aug 16, 2009

Inspired by yourworldoftext.appspot.com ?

Raphael• 17 years ago

I believe you may be right.

vindi• 17 years ago

pfff

TweedHeads3• 17 years ago

In order to be original, you have to be, well, original.

Fail.

jacquesm5• 17 years ago

Oh, come on, you're just jealous ;)

I don't know how often this has been done again, the first time it was a pretty good thing though, one of those 'why didn't I think of that' things.

Makes you wonder though, there must be some other immensely viral idea that can make you money in a short time lurking somewhere waiting to be discovered.

It would help if he made it readable though...

TweedHeads3• 17 years ago

I was one of the many that said to myself "why didn't I think of that" the first time.

Not this time.

I'll give you one original idea to make you instant millionaire on the web.

- Start with a thousand dollars

- Every week, ask the wisdom of crowds for a way to double that purchasing, reselling, investing in anything the majority decides.

- Repeat ten times till you get to a million dollars.

- Keep the crowds amused with your vicissitudes in a daily blog.

- Profit!

Remember the red-paper-clip guy? something like that but the audience decides what to do with the money, and the whole intent is to double it every time.

Show the world we can be millionaires by investing wisely following the wisdom of crowds.

For example, first week buy $200 t-shirts for $5 and resell them for $10.

Second week, buy an old car for $2000 and resell it for $4000.

Those are just stupid examples, the audience should decide wiser.

Imagination is all you need to be a millionaire.

And originality...

dejan• 17 years ago

I can't avoid hating everything that is for pure money making and no user value creation. It is also an advice for startups.

btw0• 17 years ago

The site has the potential value to bring traffic to advertised web sites.

idlewords• 17 years ago

I bet if he had seeded it to make it look like a few people had already paid, he might have made some sales by now, joke site or not.

I recently launched a website with a gatekeeping fee pegged to the number of users (fee goes up $0.001 per user) and it surprised me how many people assumed that I started by charging $0.00. Do you really want to be the first paying user of any service?

olefoo• 17 years ago

I like that idea, it combines 'act now while it's still cheap', with the idea that the site may not be as useful until it has a certain number of users, and thus it makes sense to charge less to early users.

johnohara• 17 years ago

This site looks easy to maintain.

avinashv• 17 years ago

Well...he's made 20 bucks.

sid• 17 years ago

40 now, seems like there is a 'Z' and an '@' there now :D Seriously even if he makes 100K, heck 10K im going to label this guy as one of my idols LOL ...

movix• 17 years ago

I would have bought into that if only he'd done a Flash version.

joshu• 17 years ago

No Unicode?!

sho• 17 years ago

Actually ..

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

datawalke• 17 years ago

I hope they know rel="nofollow" has to be added to all those links.

wmeredith• 17 years ago

It doesn't matter anyway, Goog won't crawl more than 100 links on a page.

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