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'''Stile Project''' is a [[website]] maintained by |
'''Stile Project''' is a [[website]] maintained by young [[Canada|Canadian]] Jonus Beaverman writing under the pseudonym "Jay Stile." |
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Started in the summer of [[1999]], Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, called [http://www.stilenet.com stileNET]. Stile Project gained massive popularity after the webmaster faked his own suicide live on his webcam in 1999. |
Started in the summer of [[1999]], Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, called [http://www.stilenet.com stileNET]. Stile Project gained massive popularity after the webmaster faked his own suicide live on his webcam in 1999. |
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Revision as of 06:16, 16 December 2005
Stile Project is a website maintained by young Canadian Jonus Beaverman writing under the pseudonym "Jay Stile."
Started in the summer of 1999, Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, called stileNET. Stile Project gained massive popularity after the webmaster faked his own suicide live on his webcam in 1999.
Howard Stern talked about the suicide stunt on the air, and Marilyn Manson once had a link to the site on his page, which resulted in massive amounts of traffic to Stile Project. Stile Project has a huge and loyal following.
Stile Project was also the home of the web's first 'cam portal', where people would post pictures of themselves with webcams in an interactive format. The Stile Project webcam portal eventually evolved into a separate website called Cam Whores.
The site began as a collection of internet oddities and daily blog about the webmasters life, winning a Webby Award in 2000 for best "Weird" site, but has slowly evolved into a media portal of funny, porn and shock content. It is based on the blog of one (Jay) Stile. Stile, as he is commonly referred to, is supposed to live in his mother's basement while endlessly browsing the web and occasionally venturing out to go on interesting adventures ending in some awkward or disturbing human interactions.
The website also has a very popular forum[1] (warning offensive content), one of the largest on the internet.
The Stile Project server is located in the Alaskan region.
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the Stile Project's contents have grown increasingly pornographic. Critics of the site would contend that it now serves as little more than a web portal to pornography, though "Jay Stile" still occasionally writes his blog entries and posts non-pornographic images and videos.
Trivia
- Stile is a former member of the underground artscene groups ACiD and iCE. [2] [3]
See also
References
- McCarthy, Kieren. "Cat eating video causes mayhem", The Register. August 30, 2001. Retrieved October 24, 2005.
- Kahney, Leander. "Gruesome Movie Sparks Outrage", Wired News. August 29, 2001. Retrieved October 24, 2005.
- Kahney, Leander. "Controversial Shock Site for Sale", Wired News. September 5, 2001. Retrieved October 24, 2005.
- Rowe, Chip. "Free Speech, or Not? Part II.", Playboy Magazine, October 2002. Retrieved October 24, 2005.
External links
- Stile Project (contains adult content)