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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1016" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet" target="_blank"><strong>Why there's so little left of the early internet - BBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. </strong></p><p></p><p>In 2005, student Alex Tew had a million-dollar brainwave.</p><p></p><p>The 20-year-old was playing around with ideas to pay for a looming three-year business degree; Tew was already worrying that the overdraft he had would mushroom. So he scribbled on a pad: “How to become a millionaire.”</p><p></p><p>Twenty minutes later he had what he thought was the answer.</p><p></p><p>Tew set up a website called the <a href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/" target="_blank">Million Dollar Homepage</a>. The site’s model was almost obscenely simple: on it was a million pixels of ad space, the pixels available to buy in blocks of 100 at $1 a pixel. Once you bought them they were yours forever. When the millionth pixel was sold, Tew would be a millionaire. At least, that was the plan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1016, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet'][B]Why there's so little left of the early internet - BBC[/B][/URL] [B]It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. [/B] In 2005, student Alex Tew had a million-dollar brainwave. The 20-year-old was playing around with ideas to pay for a looming three-year business degree; Tew was already worrying that the overdraft he had would mushroom. So he scribbled on a pad: “How to become a millionaire.” Twenty minutes later he had what he thought was the answer. Tew set up a website called the [URL='http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/']Million Dollar Homepage[/URL]. The site’s model was almost obscenely simple: on it was a million pixels of ad space, the pixels available to buy in blocks of 100 at $1 a pixel. Once you bought them they were yours forever. When the millionth pixel was sold, Tew would be a millionaire. At least, that was the plan. [/QUOTE]
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