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One Million Screenshots

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    1338
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    It's depressing how many of those are just... soulless company/business websites. Sort of like zooming into all the cookie-cutter suburban subdivisions on a real map.

    It's depressing how many of those are just... soulless company/business websites. Sort of like zooming into all the cookie-cutter suburban subdivisions on a real map.

    21 votes
    1. puhtahtoe
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      I think this is an inevitable side effect of the internet being such an important part of modern life and business discovery. You simply can't not have a presence on the web these days if you want...

      I think this is an inevitable side effect of the internet being such an important part of modern life and business discovery. You simply can't not have a presence on the web these days if you want your business to flourish and there are only so many user friendly ways to lay out business information.

      9 votes
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    xk3
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    Browsing One Million Screenshots makes me think about how inconsequential I am... which is a good perspective to have sometimes... I think it is a similar feeling of mild dissociation to the...

    One Million Screenshots is an interactive Leaflet map which allows you to pan and zoom around the screenshots of the top 1 million websites. To make the map the company Urlbox took screenshots of the top 1,048,576 ranked websites by Common Crawl Web Graph.

    Browsing One Million Screenshots makes me think about how inconsequential I am... which is a good perspective to have sometimes... I think it is a similar feeling of mild dissociation to the "overview effect"

    Similar things:

    10 votes
    1. first-must-burn
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      ~ Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

      No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.

      ~ Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

      4 votes
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    macleod
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    Very cool to see mine on there, albeit, an older version of my site.

    Very cool to see mine on there, albeit, an older version of my site.

    6 votes
    1. macleod
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      Update: I enjoyed seeing that site in the archives so much, I reverted back to a two year old version of my site because it was so much better than any of my modern rewrites and totally forgot how...

      Update: I enjoyed seeing that site in the archives so much, I reverted back to a two year old version of my site because it was so much better than any of my modern rewrites and totally forgot how many small features and design flourishes I added to that one.

      7 votes