Who developed the free site formula?

[Raven]

Originally posted by Useless Warrior
Can anyone trace the history of today's standard 4 page free site, or was it something that developed so slowly that there aren't any milestones along the way? Did link lists start off accepting almost any type of site that offered free content and slowly honed it down with new rules, or did that fucker just pop out someone's ass one day?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Didn't anyone tell you? I have the patent on the 'free site'. Pay me. |rasta|