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When Place first happened it was such a phenomenon, I think nothing that tries to copy it will ever come close.
Even Reddit's follow-ups have been much less fun than the first one.
You could argue that place was a copy. Before that you had The Million Dollar Homepage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage?wprov=sfla1) in 2005, where companies could buy a pixel for a dollar. I have a hard time believing that it didn't have some influence over the creation of place.