I also created an interactive tile based on my vanilla-tilt.js library for my app: https://webtiles.kicya.net/#625,3875
Old Internet times that will probably never come back.
I don't understand. How can you say this on a post about a site that is almost the exact same thing you're reminiscing about? Arguably way cooler - at least WebTiles isn't charging money for spots.
I don't think WebTiles will be front page news tomorrow.
I guess the counterpoint to that, for both Crypto and Pixel sites, is that the cost of making one is low enough that someone could do it not expecting it to do well and is just taking a punt on the non-zero chance it will do well.
For the rest of us, we are probably better off ignoring the many insignificant instances. They are, for the most part truly insignificant. You may stumble across one once in a while, but really you would have to go looking specifically for them to be annoyed by how many there are.
(full disclosure - my screenshot api takes the screenshots :) )
In this way it really beats milliondollarhomepage since most of that was just ads for the moneymakers of the day.
The "corners of the internet" have felt increasingly opaque and cobwebby in this age of maximal indexing and centralization.
Projects like this are a super cool way to recapture some of that old time magic.
pupppet•3w ago