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Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pet-rocks dept.

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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  1. The Page Itself by RealmySG1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Link to the page itself (gotta love the URl :-/) : http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

  2. Re:I was REALLY REALLY impressed.. by PostFutura · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You should read the page a bit better. There is a text saying: "The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew. We thank Alex for the wonderful idea and hope that he makes a million! Please support his website and visit it here. (We are not affiliated with Alex)".

    That script came up over a month later.
    Stop trolling or buy you a pair of new eyes.

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  3. Re:I was REALLY REALLY impressed.. by kahei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Impressive, even for /. -- if you actually read the link you posted, you'll find:


    The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew.


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  4. nope... still *his* idea by big+ben+bullet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    no it's not... i was *his* idea

    to quote the milliondollarscript page:
    "The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew."

    the milliondollarscript page team? created a script that does the same
    and they try to sell it for $50

    some braindead numbnuts actually bought the damned thing too *figures*

    i think Alex should have pattented the idea, then he would have made way more than a million