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."

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The Million Dollar homepage

[mge]

The Million Dollar homepage
oops forgot the obligatory WOOOT!!! FP

Return on investment

[quokkapox]

I clicked on multiple ads which looked vaguely appealing, loaded their pages in tabs, skimmed over some of them, and bought absolutely nothing. Net result: wasted bandwidth.

It'd be an interesting way to get your message out to some more people though, if you weren't trying to sell something.

This Internet thing is tweaking human communication in interesting ways. I like it.

Re:web address?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com