it was a fixed 5 BTC per IP per day and it was from 2010.
back then people weren't really abusing faucets and weren't considering a faucet as way of "earning bitcoin"! it was more like a giveaway to try out this new strange thing on the internet they called "bitcoin".
and it wasn't just his own coins, for example there was a couple of 1500BTC donations, multiple 50BTC, 70BTC,...
https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?sort=1
not to mention that in 2010 you could mine more bitcoin with your PC that you could abuse a faucet and earn.
Yes, back in those days faucets served a genuine purpose, to increase adoption. I tried some of the faucets that came after
Gavin's faucet, but I figured that it was a waste of electricity.
I never even imagined that a bitcoin's price would reach nearly $20,000 per coin. Feel free to add me to the list of people,
who thought it was a waste of time. After a few years, I bumped into Freebitco.in again and I learned my lesson and kept
my faucet earnings. I cashed out some of those Satoshi last year and I bought something nice for my pets.