I Bought a Million Dollar Piece of Internet History | Nostalgia Nerd

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[DavidWonn]

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.

[saturnuria]

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.

[henriquejambu]

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!

[thailad_]

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.

[rpavlik]

This is marvelous. Also, I really enjoy the Uns Table.

"Things have gotten slightly worse since 2014, though not catastrophically." Ok, speak for yourself...

[Relyx]

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.

[baroncalamityplus]

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.

[zerrei_]

Huge thanks for featuring one of my retro CGI pieces! And ofcourse a great video, as always.

[UncleAwesomeRetro]

Really cool video :D The small companies clinging to the big ones with the bigger adverts was funny to me :)

[UpLateGeek]

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!

[ABrit-btce]

Ling is great. I'm lead to understand that her company isn't too shabby either.

[shelltoe_soul]

yo ling's background on his rental car page goes so hard honestly, lmao, the tiling on it is beautiful.

[moorlandmonster]

I remember this at the time and always wondered what happened to it. Great video!

[darjiaethera]

It's so awesome to be a part of the unstable gallery and in a way, internet history! Thanks so much!

[nobel]

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.

[xofcenter]

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.

[ogxboxmike]

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 :)

[Petertronic]

Amazing what you can do with the right idea at exactly the right time. It would never work again.

[midimusicforever]

This is indeed nostalgic nerdiness! Good stuff!

[holnrew]

It hurts to find out how old this is. I remember trying to open every link