Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

For those of us who were there in the beginning, here's a nice slice of nostalgia:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

"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 Million Dollar Homepage. 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.

The Million Dollar Homepage launched on 26 August 2005, after Tew had spent the grand sum of 50 euros on registering the domain and setting up the hosting. Advertisers bought pixels and provided a link, tiny image and a short amount of text for when the cursor hovered over their image."

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Interesting, but the NSA has most of it on their servers if not all of it. Getting it out of them might be hard.