Founders
The first 100 names get written into the Hall of Internet. Forever.
A full canvas may eventually hold thousands of owners. Only the first 100 verified purchasers receive founding numbers 001 through 100.
A founding number is a receipt for timing
The Hall of Internet is the public index of completed owners. Each placement receives a card with its artwork, title, coordinates, pixel count, chosen country or anonymous identity, and a route back to its position on the canvas. For the first one hundred verified purchasers, that card also carries a founding number from 001 through 100.
The number does not make the owner more important than everybody who arrives later, and it does not promise traffic or financial value. It records one narrow fact that cannot be recreated: this owner joined during the first hundred completed purchases. When purchase 101 arrives, founding status does not expand to create another slot. The ordinary card remains, but the founding sequence is complete.
Why early names carry a different story
A finished public wall can be impressive, but its beginning is where individual choices are easiest to see. Early owners select from a mostly open map. They take the social risk of joining before a crowded screenshot makes the project feel inevitable. Their cards document that decision in order rather than rewriting the history after success.
This is a deliberately modest form of recognition. There is no fabricated timer and no claim that a particular number is currently available unless the live verified count says so. The website can calculate founding places from completed purchase records. Failed, refunded where required, abandoned, or unverified checkouts do not become founding owners merely because somebody opened a payment page.
What every completed owner receives
Founding status is an extra label, not a different core product. Every approved completed placement is intended to remain visible on the canvas, link to its submitted destination, and appear in the Hall. The owner card can be shared as a clean page with a permanent route. A viewer can use that card to visit the owner’s destination or locate the associated coordinates.
The first hundred receive the same foundation plus their sequential marker. The first ten are also intended to be collected on a dedicated founding-ten article after ten verified purchases exist. That page must never claim names before the records exist. The promise is valuable precisely because the project can point to the payment-confirmed order and the public card that proves it.
How to become part of the sequence
Choose an available square, submit artwork you have the right to use, add a working destination, and complete checkout. The founding sequence follows verification order, not the moment a selection box appears on someone’s screen. A reservation that expires or a payment that never completes does not take a permanent number from somebody else.
The live Hall should be the source of truth. If it shows fewer than one hundred verified owners, founding places remain; if it shows the sequence complete, they do not. The claim is intentionally testable. You do not need to believe a marketing banner. You can inspect the cards, count the owners, and decide whether adding your own name to the early wall is worth one standard $10 square.
Your square can start at $10
Select a 10×10 square for $10, pay once, and it is intended to stay on the public canvas.