Retsy Series 1 · Card 0483 · 90-MEM
Visitor number 000047. Welcome!
The little odometer-style number at the bottom of a homepage that kids refreshed constantly to watch climb.
The story · 1998
The counter looked like a car odometer and it was the most important number in your life. Every refresh added one, so your own clicks made up most of the visitors. Reaching one thousand called for a celebration graphic. Losing it all after switching hosts was a genuine personal heartbreak.
The secret of every popular homepage was a little brother paid a quarter to hit refresh one hundred times.
Six finishes
Hit Counter Pride comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
90-MEM
Hit Counter Pride is one of 32 cards in the 90s Memes & Fads set. Here are the other 31.
