I was looking at the first few months of Drivenbyboredom way back in March 2001.  My site got a big jump in traffic because when the Russian MIR space station went crashing back to Earth I pretended to sell it on ebay.  I made this ball of duct tape and wire and wrote up the description:

This is an actual piece of the Mir Space Station. It crashed and i fished it out of the ocean. I don’t know what it is, but its definitely part of the Mir. I am sure its worth thousands of dollars, but you can by it now for a MIR 15 hundred! HA HA! MIR! By the way, this is all a lie, it is actually duct tape and wire.

Anyway, this made the national news and was written up in the Register and Wired.  Ebay closed the auction when it got up to 15 thousand dollars.  It was also on some Canadian news program but for some reason the made it seem like I was trying to rip people off… very weird.   So that was my little 15 minutes and the start of a website that used to get a lot more traffic than it does now.

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