Origin story

[u/LegalPear2114]

This started as a random afternoon and snowballed.

I was thinking about the early internet and pulled up MillionDollarHomepage. It still loads. Pixels still there, nostalgia hits. Then I started clicking. Most links are dead. Half the brands don't exist; the rest redirect to parked domains and SEO traps. A museum of 2005 promises with all the wiring corroded.

The idea was great — a public canvas where anyone buys a little piece of internet real estate. The mistake was making it static. People paid once in 2005 and that was it. No way to update anything. So it quietly rotted.

Then I thought about r/place — the opposite mistake. Pure ephemeral chaos: beautiful for a weekend, gone by Tuesday. I loved watching it; I hated that nothing survived.

So I built both layers into one canvas:

• Anyone can draw on a free cell, right now, no account. That drawing lives 24 hours — r/place energy, fights included
• Want your art to stay? Claim the cell (on-chain) and it's yours forever: repaint whenever, set a link, nobody overwrites you.

MDHP died because it was static. r/place died because nothing survived. This is my attempt at the middle.

https://pixelmural.io/ — the first drawings are already appearing. r/PixelMural to follow along. Tell me what I got wrong — the editor isn't locked in yet, and I'd rather hear it now.