Stile Project
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| URL | StileProject.com |
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| Type of site | Shock/porn |
| Registration | Optional (to upload content). |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Created by | Jonathan Biderman |
| Launched | October 3, 1999[1] |
| Alexa rank |  12,884 (February 2012[update])[2] |
Stile Project is a website founded by writer and webmaster Jonathan Biderman[3][4][5] who founded the site when he was in high school, and ran it for 12 years under the alias Jay Stile. Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, collectively called stileNET. On December 2, 2010, Stile announced that he had sold Stile Project.[6]
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[edit] Awards
Stile Project won Webby Awards in 2000 for Weird site and People's Voice winner.[7]
[edit] Content
Wired referred to Stileproject.com as a "shock site" in a 2001 article.[4] The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any taboo or depravity that could be digitized."[8] In the early 2000s, as "the Web's leading repository of crude filth--probably the most reliable source of tastelessness in the history of the Internet,"[9] its content was criticized for its shock value. Particularly, a video showing a Korean man killing, cooking, and eating a kitten was highly publicized and denounced by PETA,[3][4][10] who sought a Federal investigation, which did not occur.[11]
Open source software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images".[12][13] As the site evolved, surviving purported webhost troubles,[14] a major hacking incident[5][15] and by 2004 purportedly "[not] grossing out teenagers anymore,"[16] the Stile Project's content grew increasingly pornographic.
[edit] Associations
- Stile is a former member of the underground art scene groups ACiD and iCE. His specialty was designing ANSI logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 1990s.[17]
- In 2006, Canadian poet Daniel Scott Tysdal cited Stile Project (December 2004) as a stanza in his poem Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method.[18]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Stileproject.com Whois record. whois.enom.com. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ "Stileproject.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/StileProject.com. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ a b McCarthy, Kieren (August 30, 2001). "Cat eating video causes mayhem". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/30/cat_eating_video_causes_mayhem/. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ a b c Kahney, Leander (August 28, 2008). "Gruesome Movie Sparks Outrage". Wired.com. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/08/46315. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ a b Middleton, James (July 25, 2001). "Porn site hacked by rabbit". V3.co.uk. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ "Stile Project". Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. http://www.webcitation.org/5ujZW70D3. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ Mulligan, Judie (May 11, 2000). "Stars turn out to honor the best web sites of the year at the Webby Awards 2000" (Press release). Webby Awards. http://www.webbyawards.com/press/press-release.php?id=33. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Beato, Greg (June 18, 2009). "Porn's highs and lows". Las Vegas Weekly. http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/18/porns-highs-and-lows/. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Citrome, Michael (February 10, 2000). "Something for everyone". Networthy. Montreal Mirror. http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/022400/worthy.html. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Kornblum, Janet (August 30, 2001). "Gag turns into rent for laid-off designer". (Item 2) Techbrief; USA Today. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
- ^ Rowe, Chip (October 2002). "Free Speech or Not Free Speech: You Be the Judge Part 2 (Item 10)". Playboy.com 49 (10). Archived from the original on 2002-10-10. http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (2002). Schalit, Joel. ed. "Peace, Love, Linux". The Anti-capitalism Reader (Akashic Books): 244. ISBN 1888451335. http://books.google.com/books?id=8GlSVoiOdzwC&pg=PA244&dq=%22stile+project%22#v=onepage&q=%22stile%20project%22&f=false.
- ^ Stile, J. (May 10, 2001). "Linux Loving Sluts". stileproject.com. Archived from the original on 2000-05-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20000510024558/http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ Stile, J. (April 5, 2001). "Homepage". Stile Project. Archived from the original on 2001-04-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20010405040117/http://www.stileproject.com/. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
- ^ Leyden, John (July 24, 2001). "Infamous porn site gets a hacker makeover". The Register. Archived from the original on 2001-07-25.. http://web.archive.org/web/20040827062357/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/24/infamous_porn_site_gets/. Links to the hack & J. Stile's rant.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (November 3, 2004). "The Great Unknown". Alter Net. http://www.alternet.org/story/20396/. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ^ "Reader Mail, page 7". stileproject.com. Stile Project. December 13, 2003. Archived from the original on 2004-12-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20041206222515/http://www.stileproject.com/readermail7.html. Retrieved 2010-07-27. Viewer discretion advised.
- ^ Tysdal, Daniel Scott (June 20, 2006). II. For As Long As Their Looking Lasts. Coteau Books. p. 72. ISBN 1550503502. http://books.google.com/books?id=zDhbBAyECeIC&pg=PA72&dq=%22stileproject.com%22#v=onepage&q=%22stileproject.com%22&f=fals. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
