Stile Project

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::summary Internet shock and pornography site ::

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FieldValue
nameStile Project
logoStileProject2010b.gif
logo_size225px
urlStileProject.com
typeShock/Porn
languageEnglish
registrationOptional (to upload content)
authorJay Stile
launch_dateOctober 3, 1999
current_statusSold 2010; portal
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Stile Project is a website founded by a writer and webmaster known by the pseudonym Jay Stile. Stile started the site in 1999 when he was in high school, and ran it for 12 years. Stile Project grew into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, collectively called stileNET. On December 2, 2010, Stile announced that he had sold Stile Project. According to Stile, after selling the website, he went on to study computer science and received his postgraduate academic degree in 2013.

Content

The Register referred to Stileproject.com as a "shock site" in a 2001 article. The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any taboo or depravity that could be digitized." 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," its content was criticized for its shock value. One example was a video showing a Korean villager killing, cooking, and eating a cat was highly publicized and denounced by PETA, who sought a federal investigation, which did not occur. Stile reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999, and he confirmed the hoax in 2012.

Open-source software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images".{{cite journal|journal=The Anti-capitalism Reader | editor=Schalit, Joel |title=Peace, Love, Linux | author=Newitz, Annalee | year=2002 |page=244 |publisher=Akashic Books | isbn=1-888451-33-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GlSVoiOdzwC&dq=%22stile+project%22&pg=PA244}} As the site evolved, it survived what Stile reported was webhost troubles, and a major hacking incident. By 2004 AlterNet wrote that it and other similar shock sites "aren't grossing out teenagers anymore."

Awards

Stile Project won Webby Awards in 2000 for Weird site and People's Voice winner.

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.
  • 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.

References

References

  1. "Stile Project".
  2. Stile. (August 30, 2012). "What happened to the old stileproject? Where can I find all that stuff?". stilemedia.com.
  3. Stile, J.. (February 27, 2013). "Stilemedia.com Post Graduate Degree". StileMedia.com.
  4. McCarthy, Kieren. (August 30, 2001). "Cat eating video causes mayhem". [[The Register]].
  5. Beato, Greg. (June 18, 2009). "Porn's highs and lows". Las Vegas Weekly.
  6. Citrome, Michael. (February 10, 2000). "Something for everyone". [[Montreal Mirror]].
  7. Kornblum, Janet (August 30, 2001). [https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-30-ebrief.htm "Gag turns into rent for laid-off designer"] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-06-26 . (Item 2) ''Techbrief''; [[USA Today]]. Retrieved 2010-07-27.)
  8. Rowe, Chip. (October 2002). ["Free Speech or Not Free Speech: You Be the Judge Part 2 (Item 10)"](http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html ). originally Playboy.com.
  9. Stile, J.. (January 2015). ["Webcam stunt"](http://www.stilemedia.com/post/16668554153/i-faked-my-own-suicide-back-on-webcam-in-1999-i}}{{dead link).
  10. Stile, J.. (May 10, 2001). "Linux Loving Sluts". stileproject.com.
  11. Stile, J.. (April 5, 2001). "Homepage". Stile Project.
  12. Leyden, John. (July 24, 2001). "Infamous porn site gets a hacker makeover".
  13. Middleton, James. (July 25, 2001). ["Porn site hacked by rabbit"](http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit <!--). V3.co.uk.
  14. Newitz, Annalee. (November 3, 2004). "The Great Unknown". Alter Net.
  15. Mulligan, Judie. (May 11, 2000). "Stars turn out to honor the best web sites of the year at the Webby Awards 2000". [[Webby Awards]].
  16. (May 12, 2000). "Technology Glitz, goofiness mark Webby Awards ceremony". [[CNN]].
  17. (December 13, 2003). "Reader Mail, page 7". Stile Project.
  18. Tysdal, Daniel Scott. (June 20, 2006). "II. For As Long As Their Looking Lasts". Coteau Books.

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