Slashdot Mirror
Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea
Quantum Logic writes "Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, earned a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100. He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release. That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites."
...cause I didn't think of it first. :(
It's so simple! *bangs head on table*
google.slashdot
$1 buys you a character. I hope to collect a cool $120 by the time this is all over.
The site got unexpected high hits from slashdot :) which means more sales.
I lost my signature... help!
...there's a sucker born every minute.
Or in this case, at least 10,000 in 4 months.
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Well looks like he'll need that money for a new server...
30% Troll, 50% Underrated, 10% Interesting
Score:5, Troll
This is seriously old news. Like, from September old. What next, are we going to get an editorial about this new phenomenon called "blogging"?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
You're missing something, probably a 21st century browser.
... his cool million will be wiped out by his bandwidth bills.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I can tell you exactly. 1 cumshot is about a half-teaspoon for me, and it took me 1536 shots to fill a gallon milk jug. I was doing this for 12 hours a day, and on average I could shoot about 18 times if I really tried. It took almost 3 months for me to fill the milk jug up. 85 days, actually. Finished up just after noon on the 85th day.
Told you I was hardcore.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Yeah! Tell me about it... keep your damn dog from crapping on my front yard!
ok, who wants to chip in to get a goatse up on this page?
I'll pay you $1 for it if you can change it to be a specific color.
Cause Manboobs says so.
"MillionDollarHomePage.com has proved to be a fantastic investment for manboobs.co.uk. For a relatively small outlay our hits have increased 10 fold in 2 days. Great idea which really works. Thanks Alex !"
Ian Whitcombe
www.manboobs.co.uk
Pixels purchased: 100
If you build it, they will come!
Happens everywhere. Provide access, and housing magically sprouts.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?