This just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.
Someone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view
EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages.
Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com
It’s been a continual evolution of making everything commercialized.
We are living in an age that in the west it is super popular to monetise your body even. Late stage capitalism.
Take heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging:
- Open source wasm runtime
- Science transparency campaign
- Netherlands gov anti-climate change program
- open thesaurus
- GNOME conference
- France's portal of towns and cities
- Scientific measurement standardistion page
- Scientific journal
- free eBook library
- parked domain
- Linux community
- Open source graphics library
- placeholder/template blog
- A book publisher (selling books!)
It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.