The Longest Webpage on the Net

M.A.D.’s mile-long (kilometer-long) webpage, Madscroll 2003, is truly “not for the faint of heart,” as spoken by Dave Fletcher, a judge in HOW magazine‘s interactive digital design competition. The experimental site…I mean, page…houses all of the content, dating way back to the good old year of 1998.

The unspeakably long webpage won M.A.D. the “Outstanding” title in the self-promo websites category of HOW magazine’s competition. M.A.D. creative director Patricia McShane had this to say:

“We’re moving back toward traditional browser notions combined with architectural references. By placing all our content in one extremely long document, we’re building a new desktop experience that aims to evoke ‘content vertigo.’ It’s a simple linear structure, but it becomes kinetic when it’s scrolled — a bit like early hand-cranked cinescopes.”

There’s definitely no better way to describe the webpage than “content vertigo.” It’s absolutely dizzying!