Every term on the wall, defined once, so humans and machines can quote it.
A favicon wall is a shared grid where each cell shows one website's favicon and links out. How Square Town's $1 wall works and how it differs from pixel walls.
3 min readInternet real estate means buying a fixed spot on a shared web page. What owning a square legally means (nothing), practically means, and how Square Town does it.
3 min readAn eviction on Square Town is taking someone's square by paying double what they paid. How the price doubles, what the feed announces, and how other walls compare.
3 min readThe 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 again.
3 min readKiss the icon is Square Town's free keep-alive mechanic: an icon not kissed for 90 days fades to grayscale, and anyone can kiss any icon with one click.
2 min readA ring unlock is how Square Town's wall grows: only the central 16×16 is live at launch, and at 70 % full it expands by 8 cells per side, up to 1024×1024 squares.
3 min readA deed on Square Town is the secret URL you get after buying a square — the only proof of ownership, as there are no accounts. What it shows, plus the $5 analytics.
3 min readThe Hall of Clowns is Square Town's public list of sites with no favicon: they get a clown emoji on the wall until they add one and press "I fixed my favicon".
3 min readPixel advertising is selling pixels on one shared web page as ad space, started by The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005. Pricing, why clones died, the revival.
3 min readA favicon is the small icon a website shows in tabs and bookmarks — /favicon.ico or a link rel=icon. Sizes, formats, and how Square Town fetches yours for the wall.
3 min readThe Million Dollar Homepage (2005) sold 1,000,000 pixels at $1 each in 10×10 blocks, selling out in five months for $1.04M. Facts, legacy, how Square Town differs.
3 min readA pay-to-rank (king-of-the-hill) board sells position in a ranked list: whoever pays most holds #1 until outbid. Milliboard, The Pixel Orbit, and Square Town.
3 min readA click tower is a favicon on Square Town's 3D wall: ctrl+drag tilts the grid and every icon becomes a box whose height equals its click count, tinted its colour.
3 min readA logo wall (logo board) is a shared grid where businesses upload a logo with a link, often on subscription. SaaSBoard, The Logo Wall, The SaaS Wall vs Square Town.
3 min read1 square = $1, one-time, no account. Paste a URL, pick a cell, done. Open the wall →