On August 22, 2021, Adam McBride, an "NFT Archaeologist" as he's best described, reached out to Ken Erwin, PixelMap founder, asking if he had created PixelMap. That was the beginning of the "rediscovery", leading to a massive amount of attention in a few hours, no sleep for 50+ hours, an ERC-721 wrapper to make PixelMap easier to use, and a revival of the website. The "Genesis Collection" is for the first owners of PixelMap tiles and brave apes who have participated in the PixelMap Rediscovery.