Stile Project
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Type of site | Shock/porn |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Created by | Jay Stile |
| Website | StileProject.com |
| Alexa rank |
 49,518 (April 2014)[1] |
| Registration | Optional (to upload content) |
| Launched | October 3, 1999 |
| Current status | Sold 2010, portal |
Stile Project is a website founded by writer and webmaster Jay Stile.[2][3] Stile started the site when he was in high school, and ran it for 12 years under the alias Jay Stile. Stile Project grew 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;[4] he confirmed the sale in 2012.[5] According to Stile, after selling his website, he went on to study computer science and received his postgraduate academic degree in 2013.[6]
Content
The Register referred to Stileproject.com as a "shock site" in a 2001 article.[2] The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any taboo or depravity that could be digitized."[7] 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,"[8] its content was criticized for its shock value. Particularly, a video showing a Korean villager killing, cooking, and eating a cat (from the BBC documentary "Culture Shock,) was highly publicized and denounced by PETA,[2][9] who sought a federal investigation, which did not occur.[10] Stile reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999,[11] and he confirmed the hoax in 2012.[12]
Open-source software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images".[13][14] As the site evolved, surviving purported webhost troubles,[15] a major hacking incident[3][11] and by 2004 purportedly "[not] grossing out teenagers anymore,"[16] the Stile Project's content grew increasingly pornographic.
Awards
Stile Project won Webby Awards in 2000 for Weird site and People's Voice winner.[17][18]
Associations
- Stile is a former member of the underground art scene groups ACiD, DARK and iCE. His specialty was designing ANSI logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 1990s.[19]
- In 2006, Canadian poet Daniel Scott Tysdal cited Stile Project (December 2004) as a stanza in his poetry collection Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method.[20]
See also
References
- ↑ "Stileproject.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- 1 2 3 McCarthy, Kieren (August 30, 2001). "Cat eating video causes mayhem". The Register. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- 1 2 Middleton, James (July 25, 2001). "Porn site hacked by rabbit". V3.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-10-14.(registration required)
- ↑ "Stile Project". Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ↑ Stile (August 30, 2012). "What happened to the old stileproject? Where can I find all that stuff?". stilemedia.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
- ↑ Stile, J. (February 27, 2013). "Stilemedia.com Post Graduate Degree". StileMedia.com.
- ↑ Beato, Greg (June 18, 2009). "Porn's highs and lows". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ Citrome, Michael (February 10, 2000). "Something for everyone". Networthy. Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on 2003-09-12. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
- ↑ 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)". ChipRowe.com. originally Playboy.com.
- 1 2 Leyden, John (July 24, 2001). "Infamous porn site gets a hacker makeover". The Register. Archived from the original on 2004-08-27. Links to the hack & J. Stile's rant.
- ↑ Stile, J. (January 28, 2012). "Webcam stunt".
- ↑ Newitz, Annalee (2002). Schalit, Joel, ed. "Peace, Love, Linux". The Anti-capitalism Reader. Akashic Books: 244. ISBN 1-888451-33-5.
- ↑ Stile, J. (May 10, 2001). "Linux Loving Sluts". stileproject.com. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ Stile, J. (April 5, 2001). "Homepage". Stile Project. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
- ↑ Newitz, Annalee (November 3, 2004). "The Great Unknown". Alter Net. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "Technology Glitz, goofiness mark Webby Awards ceremony". CNN. May 12, 2000. Archived from the original on 2011-08-10.
- ↑ "Reader Mail, page 7". stileproject.com. Stile Project. December 13, 2003. Retrieved 2010-07-27. Viewer discretion advised.
- ↑ Tysdal, Daniel Scott (June 20, 2006). II. For As Long As Their Looking Lasts. Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method. Coteau Books. p. 72. ISBN 1-55050-350-2. Retrieved 2010-07-05.