Six hundred pixels were purchased.
MonPremierMillion.com appeared on The Million Dollar Homepage, a 1,000 × 1,000 pixel experiment where advertising space was sold for one dollar per pixel.
You just followed a link from the early web. In 2005, this domain bought 600 pixels on The Million Dollar Homepage.
MonPremierMillion.com appeared on The Million Dollar Homepage, a 1,000 × 1,000 pixel experiment where advertising space was sold for one dollar per pixel.
The link stayed embedded in the original grid while the site behind it eventually vanished and the domain expired.
Twenty-one years later, the same domain was registered again. If you arrived from that tiny French flag with the question mark, you just completed a 21-year-old hyperlink.
The web forgets quickly.
Some links don't.