Visit the Original BTC faucet courtesy of the Wayback Machine

[william8829]

On June 11, 2010 Gavin Andresen presented the very first faucet at https://freebitcoins.appspot.com.

Its now defunct and will just return a 404.

However, using this internet archive you can actually see a 'snapshot' of it. Like most faucets today it has a capcha and doesn't payout. I found it really cool nonetheless.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/https://freebitcoins.appspot.com

[haroldtee]

It doesn't pay out or it didn't not pay out back then to those who solved the captcha?  I thought someone said on this thread that most users got paid then. It is funny though knowing what 5btc was worth then and now. I wish I knew about faucets then.

[william8829]

It doesn't pay out or it didn't not pay out back then to those who solved the captcha?  I thought someone said on this thread that most users got paid then. It is funny though knowing what 5btc was worth then and now. I wish I knew about faucets then.

It was a paying faucet.  I was making a joke about the snapshot of the website not paying out.  Theres actually some satoshis left in the faucets bitcoin address.  

https://blockexplorer.com/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

[BrewMaster]

for the historical record this is the announcement topic that Gavin Andresen made back in 2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183.0

it sounds ridiculous now but you could have become a millionaire just by claiming faucet! and this is one of those things that will happen only once in our whole lifetime.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

That's kinda neat, and I appreciate you posting this, OP! 

5 bitcoins for just solving a captcha.  Must've been nice in the world of crypto circa 2010.  Man, I got in way too late.

[Kprawn]

I started out in Bitcoin by chewing on faucets. I kept all the income from those faucets and they are now worth about $200. I

think the fee will be about half of that if I ever decide to sweep that address. {Mostly congested with dust tx's} ...The point I

want to make is... "Faucet pay-outs might some day be worth a lot" .... Back then most faucets paid between 500 to 1000

Satoshi's per hour.  

http://prntscr.com/ghfhqj

[bit-freedom]

Wow it is nice to see the original faucet, thank you for sharing.

I wish I spend 1 min and claim 5 BTC daily back then.