[3] The site also linked to the owner, Jeff Abrahamson, at purple.com/Jeff and Jeff.purple.com; his dog, Misha, at purple.com/misha, a site with instructions to contact Jeff if Misha was lost and found; as well as his rental property business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he owned multiple properties for rent.

[8] According to the creator, software engineer Jeff Abrahamson, the site originated from the difficult process of accessing and surfing the internet in its early days, similar to most early single-serving sites.

[9] Over the years from 1994 through 2017, when Abrahamson sold the site, he used it for many purposes: novel, personal, and commercial, as stated above.

[1] From its launch to late 2006 the background colour was #DD00FF  , resulting in numerous complaints that it was not actually purple.

[16][17][18][19][20] In January 2018, theoldpurple.com was created as an homage to and replacement for the original, single-page Purple website.