Editing Stile Project

{{short description|Internet shock and pornography site}}
{{Infobox website
| name            = Stile Project
| logo            = StileProject2010b.gif
| logo_size       = 225px
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| url             = [http://www.stileproject.com StileProject.com]
| commercial      =
| type            = Shock/Porn
| language        = English
| registration    = Optional (to upload content)
| owner           =
| author          = Jay Stile
| launch_date     = October 3, 1999
| current_status  = Sold 2010; portal
| revenue         =
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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.<ref name=Farewell>{{cite web |url=http://stileproject.net |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ujZW70D3?url=http://www.stileproject.com/ |archive-date=2010-12-04 |title=Stile Project |access-date=2010-12-04 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What happened to the old stileproject? Where can I find all that stuff? |author=Stile |publisher=stilemedia.com |url=http://www.stilemedia.com/post/30540747611/what-happened-to-the-old-stileproject-where-can-i-find |date=August 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240526084318/https://www.webcitation.org/6Bp36q6Uz?url=http://www.stilemedia.com/post/30540747611/what-happened-to-the-old-stileproject-where-can-i-find |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |access-date=October 31, 2012 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> According to Stile, after selling the website, he went on to study computer science and received his postgraduate academic degree in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |author=Stile, J. |date=February 27, 2013|url=http://www.stilemedia.com/post/44194244095/i-finally-graduated-now-you-can-call-me-dr |title=Stilemedia.com Post Graduate Degree |work=StileMedia.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411212552/http://www.stilemedia.com/post/44194244095/i-finally-graduated-now-you-can-call-me-dr |archive-date=2013-04-11 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

==Content==
''[[The Register]]'' referred to Stileproject.com as a "[[shock site]]" in a 2001 article.<ref name="RegCat">{{cite web |author=McCarthy, Kieren |date=August 30, 2001 |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/30/cat_eating_video_causes_mayhem/ |title=Cat eating video causes mayhem |work=[[The Register]] |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603224859/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/30/cat_eating_video_causes_mayhem/ |archive-date=2010-06-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any [[taboo]] or depravity that could be digitized."<ref name="LVW">{{cite news |author=Beato, Greg |date=June 18, 2009 |title=Porn's highs and lows |url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/18/porns-highs-and-lows/ |newspaper=Las Vegas Weekly |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325212322/http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/18/porns-highs-and-lows/ |archive-date=2010-03-25 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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,"<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web |author=Citrome, Michael |date=February 10, 2000 |url= http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/022400/worthy.html  |title=Something for everyone |work=Networthy |publisher=[[Montreal Mirror]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030912063940/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/022400/worthy.html |archive-date=2003-09-12 |access-date=2013-03-17}}</ref> its content was criticized for its shock value. One example was a video showing a [[Koreans|Korean]] villager killing, cooking, and eating a cat was highly publicized and denounced by [[PETA]],<ref name="RegCat"/><ref name="USAToday">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|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626001137/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-30-ebrief.htm |date=2010-06-26 }}. (Item 2) ''Techbrief''; [[USA Today]]. Retrieved 2010-07-27.</ref> who sought a federal investigation, which did not occur.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rowe |first=Chip |date=October 2002 |title=Free Speech or Not Free Speech: You Be the Judge Part 2 (Item 10) |work=ChipRowe.com |publisher=originally Playboy.com |volume=49 |issue=10 |url=http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html <!--authorized republication from Playboy --> |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017050103/http://chiprowe.com/articles/free-speech-quiz-two.html |archive-date=2010-10-17 }}</ref> Stile reportedly faked his own suicide live on webcam in 1999,<ref name="RegHack"/> and he confirmed the [[hoax]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web | author=Stile, J. |title=Webcam stunt | date=January 28, 2012 | url=http://www.stilemedia.com/post/16668554153/i-faked-my-own-suicide-back-on-webcam-in-1999-i}}{{dead link|date=January 2015}}</ref>

[[Open Source software|Open-source software]]  and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author=Stile, J. |url=http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090707080836/http://www.stileproject.com/lls.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 7, 2009 |date = May 10, 2001 | title=Linux Loving Sluts |work=stileproject.com |access-date=2010-07-05}}</ref>  As the site evolved, it survived what Stile reported was [[webhost]] troubles,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stileproject.com/ |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ujZW70D3?url=http://www.stileproject.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2010 |title=Homepage |publisher=Stile Project |author=Stile, J. |date=April 5, 2001 |access-date=2010-07-27 }}</ref> and a major hacking incident.<ref name="RegHack">{{cite web |title=Infamous porn site gets a hacker makeover |author=Leyden, John |date=July 24, 2001  |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/24/infamous_porn_site_gets |website=[[The Register]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040827062357/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/24/infamous_porn_site_gets/ |archive-date=2004-08-27 }} Links to the hack & J. Stile's rant.</ref><ref name="V3">{{cite web |author=Middleton, James |url=http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit <!--|oldurl=http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2115694/porn-site-hacked-rabbit--> |title=Porn site hacked by rabbit |publisher=V3.co.uk |date=July 25, 2001 |access-date=2009-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330015944/http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1979962/porn-site-hacked-rabbit |archive-date=2012-03-30 |url-status=live}}{{registration required}}</ref> By 2004 AlterNet wrote that it and other similar shock sites "aren't grossing out teenagers anymore."<ref>{{cite web|author=Newitz, Annalee|author-link=Annalee Newitz|date=November 3, 2004|title=The Great Unknown|url=http://www.alternet.org/story/20396/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318182809/http://www.alternet.org/story/20396|archive-date=2011-03-18|access-date=2010-07-05|publisher=Alter Net}}</ref>

==Awards==
Stile Project won [[Webby Award]]s in 2000 for ''Weird'' site and ''People's Voice'' winner.<ref name="Webby">{{cite press release |author=Mulligan, Judie |url=http://www.webbyawards.com/press/press-release.php?id=33 |title=Stars turn out to honor the best web sites of the year at the Webby Awards 2000 |publisher=[[Webby Awards]] |date=May 11, 2000 |access-date=2010-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422050535/http://www.webbyawards.com/press/press-release.php?id=33 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="CNN">{{cite web |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2000-05-12/tech/webby.awards_1_webby-awards-stile-project-weird-web?_s=PM:TECH |title=Technology Glitz, goofiness mark Webby Awards ceremony |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=May 12, 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810233503/http://articles.cnn.com/2000-05-12/tech/webby.awards_1_webby-awards-stile-project-weird-web?_s=PM%3ATECH |archive-date=2011-08-10 }}</ref>

==Associations==
* Stile is a former member of the [[computer art scene|underground art scene]] groups [[ACiD Productions|ACiD]], [[Dark Illustrated|DARK]] and [[iCE Advertisements|iCE]]. His specialty was designing [[ANSI art|ANSI]] logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 1990s.<ref name="StileAnsi">{{cite web|url=http://www.stileproject.com/readermail7.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20041206222515/http://www.stileproject.com/readermail7.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 6, 2004 |title=Reader Mail, page 7| work=stileproject.com | publisher=Stile Project |date=December 13, 2003 | access-date=2010-07-27}} ''Viewer discretion advised.''</ref>
* 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''.<ref>{{cite book |title=II. For As Long As Their Looking Lasts |work=Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method |last=Tysdal|first=Daniel Scott |publisher= Coteau Books |page=72| date=June 20, 2006 |isbn=1-55050-350-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDhbBAyECeIC&dq=%22stileproject.com%22&pg=PA72|access-date=2010-07-05}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Internet}}
* [[Webcam model]]
* [[Shock site]]
* [[Rotten.com]]
* [[Ogrish.com]]

==References==
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[[Category:American erotica and pornography websites]]
[[Category:Shock sites]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 1999]]
[[Category:1999 establishments in the United States]]