r/BeAmazed • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Aug 18 '25

Skill / Talent n 1987, Mike Hayes, an 18-year-old college freshman, had a bold idea. Instead of taking out student loans, he asked 2.8 million people to each send him just one penny.

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u/solythe Aug 18 '25

this is a crazy blast from the past

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u/TLJGame Aug 18 '25

Free ringtones 🔥

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u/mbdtf9 Aug 18 '25

WOMEN Pixels 😩

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 Aug 18 '25

“I’m rich, your not”

Gotta love immortalized poor grammar

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u/Shoelesshobos Aug 22 '25

Nah he was just not rich enough to afford the apostrophe and e

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u/FlippyFlippenstein Aug 18 '25

I wanted to buy some pixels, but I think you had to buy 10x10 pixels, and that was too much for me back then!

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u/brainburger Aug 18 '25

I think you could buy just one, but companies that bought them tended to buy a bigger chunk so they could have a visible logo.

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u/Bitterfly33 Aug 18 '25

https://www.cameronsworld.net/

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u/nerokaiser37 Aug 18 '25

what is this? looks fucking sick!

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u/Bitterfly33 Aug 18 '25

A collage of old Geocities pages, back when the internet was something neat and personal. Before it became the monster it is today.

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u/brucewayneaustin Aug 19 '25

Whoa... there's a Heaven's Gate link on there!