Someone told me they put the site up on all of the computers at any Apple Store they go to. I get a lot of terrible ad salesmen that want to buy the site or plaster ads on it. What is the weirdest thing that has come from owning/running such a unique-not-really-having-a-purpose site? This has caused a lot of confusion for me because I always forget the URLs. I tried to get domain names that had the least amount of e’s an o’s possible and I guess I’m an idiot because i registered which has 8 e’s and which has 9 o’s. I had to register the domains first for the idea to work. I get at least one message a week from someone being really pissed off the site doesn’t make sound anymore. It’s obviously way better with the music, so that’s a bit sad. Thanks to everyone’s horrible spammy sites chrome and safari have disabled auto-playing audio so I had to take the music out. The first version of the site would play a mp3 of the “hey…hooo” part of Naughty by Nature’s Hip hop hooray. Technically the site is pretty basic…it is just a javascript redirect back and forth between two domains. What was the hardest part of building it? Once I got rid of those terrible illustrations the site got a lot more traffic. I remember the first version had some poorly illustrated hands-in-the-air images that looked like the glove from the Hamburger Helper commercials. This stupid site was one of the things I made. I decided to do one of those 30 days of creativity where you try to make a project every day for a month. Sometimes “creative” people need a kick in the ass and some structure to stop being lazy. What were the circumstances behind creating heeeeeey Hoooooo? The site has gotten around 50m unique visitors, and you have to assume they’ve been redirected a few times back and forth…so, god….a bazillion? I’ve made some really big websites for clients like Google and Apple and I will guarantee more people have gone to Heeeey-hoooo. How many Heeeeey Hooooo’s do you think the world has seen and heard?
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