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The Best Page In The Universe is a personal humorous website created by a programmer and university student with the nickname Maddox. The website became notorious because of its profane manner of parodying the powerful and the wealthy (ranging from McDonalds to George W. Bush). Maddox presents statistics that show he has more visitors to his site than McDonalds, Pepsi and other large corporations.
Maddox claims to receive lots of email and work for a telemarketing company writing programs in Informix 4GL/SQL, Perl (CGI), C, C++, Unix shell (Korn shell, Bourne shell, Bash), Sed/Awk, Java and PHP.
Maddox describes himself as a 25 year-old mathematics student at the University of Utah. He says he works 40-60 hours per week. His website is made using Vi and Unix. He claims to have had 79 marriage proposals from women and 4 from men. Part of his "shtick" is to write sentences such as, "I'm The Center of the Universe," "I'm better than everyone," "I love me," "I AM KING," etc. (see [1]).
Maddox explains how he started the site: He wrote a text document listing 50 things he that made him angry. He gave the list to several Efnet's #coders. Their response was positive, so he started the controversial website in 1997.
A section of the website, titled Commujism (a satirical humourous mispelling of Communism), contains drawings of a pornographic and satirical nature. One of them is a parody of the numerous "Enlarge your penis" advertisements, so common on commercial pornographic websites.
Other controversial drawings on his website include cows being eaten, hippies being killed, and similar images intended to shock the viewer. Maddox claims that he draws most of the controversial pictures himself using Microsoft Paint and occasionally Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and other graphics manipulation software. Sections of the website contain "hate mail" he has received, along with his caustic responses. Several pages humorously criticize vegetarianism and animal rights.
The layout of the website is simple; as he notes, "like Google." The author says that it thus saves his host Internet service provider, in bandwidth costs since it is such a popular site. In addition, the simple layout is there to protest to "flashy" sites that he says have little content.
He reports that the United Arab Emirates has banned his site. This evidently pleases him as the information is prominently featured. He also reports that some fire walls come pre-packaged with his site blocked and listed as “militant / extremist.” This information is unconfirmed by independent parties.
Maddox gave his website his own web award: '''Best Damn Webpage in the Universe.
The webpage contains an online store which sells stickers and t-shirts with controversial messages such as "For every animal you don't eat, I am going to eat three".Maddox
Source: Official FAQThe Website
The homepage of the website proclaims itself "The Best Page In The Universe." The format is a weblog. The visitor is advised: "If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong." The page also has a Che Guevara-like image on it (possibly of the author), wearing an eye patch and with a skull and cross bones on his beret.
