Stile Project

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Stile Project is a website maintained by a young Canadian writer, Jay Stile. Before the word blog was a common part of the English lexicon, Stile was updating his website multiple times a day, starting in the summer of 1999. Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, called stileNET.

Stile Project gained massive popularity after the webmaster faked his own suicide live on his webcam in 1999. Howard Stern talked about the suicide stunt on the air, and Marilyn Manson once had a link to the site on his page, which resulted in massive amounts of traffic to Stile Project. Stile Project has a huge and loyal following. Stile also helped popularize the Goatse shock site and the "All Your Base" internet meme.

Stile Project initially started off as a weblog in the summer of 1999. Stile would post daily rants and links to other sites of interest across the web, along with video clips and images he came across. Most of the links on his site were of comedic, weird, adult or gruesome content in nature. The site was updated multiple times a day, and was one of the first blog sites on the Internet to gain a large worldwide audience. Stile started his website in his last year of high school as a way to alleviate boredom. Since he was using the internet for multiple hours a day as a social outlet, he figured that he would try to do something constructive and catalog and blog about all the strange stuff he came across on his daily travels, along with whatever was on his mind at that particular time.

Stile Project was also the home of the web's first 'cam portal', where people would post pictures of themselves with webcams in an interactive format. The Stile Project webcam portal eventually evolved into a separate website called Cam Whores. Helping to popularize the webcam phenomenon is one of the largest contributions to the internet that sprung from Stile Project.

The site began as a collection of internet oddities and daily blog about the webmasters life, winning a Webby Award in 2000 for best "Weird" site, but has slowly evolved into a media portal of funny, porn and shock content with less focus on Stile's writing and more emphasis on the media posted. It is based on the blog of one (Jay) Stile. Stile, as he is commonly referred to, lives in his mother's basement while endlessly browsing the web and occasionally venturing out to go on interesting adventures ending in some awkward or disturbing human interactions.

The website also has a very popular forum[1] (adult content), one of the largest on the internet.

The Stile Project server is located in the Alaskan region, where Stile currently resides.

Since its inception in the late 1990s, the Stile Project's contents have grown increasingly pornographic. Critics of the site would contend that it now serves as little more than a web portal to pornography, though Stile still occasionally writes his blog entries, features counter culture writers such as Produkt, and posts non-pornographic images and videos. Stile Project has been a trend setter in its genre, with other sites cloning much of the unique functionality added to the site which is now commonplace across all similar sites.

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Jay Stile is a former member of the underground artscene groups ACiD and iCE. His speciality was designing ANSI logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 90s [BBSs][2]
Stile also used to be a SysOp of multiple BBSs back in the early 90s that he ran from his home as a teen.
Stile made the website http://www.dustindiamond.com for Max from YTMND as a joke in 2001.