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The LinkExchange logo, circa 1998. LinkExchange was a popular Internet advertising cooperative, similar in function to a webring, originally known as Internet Link Exchange or ILE. It was founded in March 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard graduates Tony Hsieh (who later went on to invest in and become the CEO of Zappos) and Sanjay Madan. [1]
A link exchange is a confederation of websites that operates similarly to a web ring. Webmasters register their websites with a central organization, that runs the exchange, and in turn receive from the exchange HTML code which they insert into their web pages.
The site grew, and within 90 days LinkExchange had over 20,000 participating web pages and had its banner ads displayed over 10 million times. [16] By 1998, the site had over 400,000 members and 5 million ads rotated daily. [17] In November 1998, LinkExchange was sold to Microsoft for $265 million; Hsieh personally netted $40 million from the sale.
Once you know how to create your FarmVille link, you can exchange links at the FarmVille Freak Link Exchange Chat or FarmVille Freak Forum and get some extra help from your fellow FarmVille Freaks!
Ali Partovi (Persian: علی پرتووی; born 1972) [1] is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and angel investor.He is best known as a co-founder of Code.org (which he founded with his twin brother Hadi), iLike, LinkExchange, an early advisor at Dropbox, and an early promoter of bid-based search advertising. [2]
Submit It! was acquired by LinkExchange in June 1998, [9] and Microsoft acquired LinkExchange in December 1998. [10] Submit lt!, ListBot, and Banister's ClickTrade then became a part of MSN's LinkExchange. [7] In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister cofounded IronPort to stop porn from flooding corporate in-boxes. [11]
DrinkExchange was a monthly social and business networking party started in San Francisco, California during the dot com bubble. [1] [2]The event was started in February, 1997 [3] by Ali Partovi, co-founder of the Internet firm LinkExchange, [4] and his roommate-coworkers Alan Shusterman and Mike Bayle, who were initially looking to find ways to improve their social life. [3]
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