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The Square Town glossary

Every term in town, defined once, so humans and machines can quote it.

16 pages
  1. 3 minWhat is a favicon wall?A favicon wall is a shared grid where each cell shows one website's favicon and links out. How Square Town's free wall works and differs from pixel walls.
  2. 3 minWhat is internet real estate?Internet real estate means holding a fixed spot on a shared page. What owning a square means legally (nothing) and practically, and how Square Town does it.
  3. 3 minWhat is an eviction on Square Town?An eviction on Square Town is taking someone's square by paying double what they paid, $1 minimum. How the price ladder works, what the feed says, other walls' rules.
  4. 3 minWhat is bulldozing on Square Town?Bulldozing on Square Town is evicting a square without taking it: pay the eviction price (2× what the owner paid, $1 minimum), place nothing, and the lot reopens at $0. Anonymous by design.
  5. 3 minWhat is the Throne on Square Town?The Throne is the 4×4 dead centre of Square Town's favicon wall: $100 to start, one owner, evictable for double, and every eviction doubles the price.
  6. 2 minWhat does "kiss the icon" mean on Square Town?Kiss the icon is Square Town's free affection mechanic: anyone can kiss any icon with one click — public, counted, and every kiss adds a storey to the icon's tower.
  7. 3 minWhat is a ring unlock on Square Town?A ring unlock is how Square Town's wall grows: only the central 16×16 is live at launch; at 75 % full it expands by 4 cells per side, up to 1024×1024.
  8. 3 minWhat is a deed on Square Town?A deed on Square Town is the secret URL you get after claiming a square: the only proof of ownership, as there are no accounts. It can be mailed to you. What it shows and unlocks.
  9. 3 minWhat is the Hall of Clowns?The Hall of Clowns is Square Town's public list of sites with no favicon: they get a clown emoji until they add one and press "I fixed my favicon".
  10. 3 minWhat is Whack-a-Clown?Whack-a-Clown is Square Town's free justice mechanic: any visitor can knock a favicon-less clown square off the wall — 24-hour grace, one whack every 10 seconds, mercy check first.
  11. 3 minWhat is pixel advertising?Pixel advertising is selling pixels on one shared web page as ad space, started by The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005. Pricing, why clones died, revival.
  12. 3 minWhat is a favicon?A favicon is the small icon a site shows in tabs and bookmarks: /favicon.ico or a link rel=icon. Sizes, formats, and how Square Town fetches yours.
  13. 3 minWhat is The Million Dollar Homepage?The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) sold a million pixels at $1 each in 10×10 blocks, selling out in five months for $1.04M. Facts, legacy, how we differ.
  14. 3 minWhat is a pay-to-rank board?A pay-to-rank (king-of-the-hill) board sells position in a ranked list: whoever pays most holds #1 until outbid. Milliboard, Pixel Orbit and Square Town.
  15. 3 minWhat is a click tower on Square Town?A click tower is a favicon on Square Town's 3D wall: ctrl+drag tilts the grid and every icon becomes a box as tall as its clicks plus kisses, in its own colour.
  16. 3 minWhat is a logo wall?A logo wall (logo board) is a shared grid where businesses upload a logo and a link, often by subscription. How SaaSBoard and The Logo Wall differ from us.