Thank You For 500,000 Views!

Another big milestone for e4494s! Today the site hit over 500,000 views on Neocities. And on Black Friday, of all days. This is a super exciting number for me, I never imagined my random website would get so much traction! And sure, I will admit, some of that traffic is from archive bots and search engine crawlers - but I know that a lot of it is genuine users looking at my site. To everyone who's visited the page, thank you! These 500,000 ticks are exactly why I make this site. I want people to look at it and enjoy it for any reason.

Half a million views is a really big milestone, and it makes me happy to know e4494s is still getting traction, even though my new additions have dwindled. I only have one semester of college left to go, so hopefully I'll be able to be more involved with the site after I graduate.

I might be shooting myself in the foot by mentioning this, but...it might help me stick to it. I want to do some more work on this site this coming winter, when I'm on break from college. Adding new pages that have been lost in a Test Bed somewhere, cleaning up styles and pages, and so on. A lot of built up progress finally coming to fruition.

We'll see what happens! No matter what, I promise I haven't forgotten this site. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to 500k hits!



500,000 is a pretty big number. Here's some programs, each drawing 500,000 of something.

Every single one of you, everyone who's ever looked at this site, you are in these pictures! You are one of those e4494s logos, you are one of those rectangles. You're probably more than one! Here's all of you in one place!

I find it fascinating just how HUGE the number 500,000 is. If you look at the final image of the 500,000 rectangles, to me it looks like it would be millions or more, yet it's half a million. It's impossible to visualize such a big number at once, and our brains are bad at estimating its size.

For a little more perspective: 500,000 milliseconds ago was only 8 minutes ago. But 500,000 seconds ago was last week (5.8 days). 500,000 minutes ago was this same time last year (347 days). 500,000 hours ago, today's grandparents were in elementary school (57 years). And 500,000 days ago, the Islamic Empire was still conquering the Middle East (1,368 years, ~650s AD).

For comparison: since you opened this page, here's how much time has passed:

See you at 1,000,000!

        ~ e4494s