TodayBox Lives!
TodayBox lives once again. I actually bought this domain over four years ago. Initially only friends and random Googlers stumbled upon the site, but then something happened. In February 2005, Paris Hilton’s cell phone was hacked and some interesting images and phone numbers from the phone were posted online. Due to high interest in the content, the original site hosting the phone info was down within minutes. I uploaded a mirror to TodayBox and posted the link on Digg.com. TodayBox, as well as Digg, received an enormous amount of traffic. In this BusinessWeek story Kevin Rose (Digg’s founder) says that was the first big moment he had with digg that really showed him it’s potential.
Well anyways, that story ended up taking down the shared server I had been using for hosting. My host was less than pleased and immediately killed my account without giving me a refund. TodayBox went down that day, and while I continued to renew the domain, I never setup a new blog…until now. Are you ready for the craziness that’s sure to ensue? No? I didn’t think so.
Image Credit: Audringje