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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."
First of all, consume large amounts of acid (just not the brown ones) then proceed to webpage. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and then see what catches your eye. In my case it was the pixels that said "jesus" which you can see here: http://www.pixel4jesus.com/en/. It would seem that everyone that bought from http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ was ripped off. Twice the profit margin. Oh, BTW jesus says "hi, and has the sage advice to not pour bleach into your eyes", even though it seems like a good idea when on acid.... I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW THE RAIN HAS GONE!!!!!!!!!!
and then i realize IT WASNT EVEN HIS IDEA! He wasn't the first to create this, infact, he didnt even create it. The whole engine running this site is developed by Jamit Software PTY LTD and the script is sold at http://www.milliondollarscript.com./ If you go there and take you look, you'll see that there are a dozen of such page which were created long before his site. So it wasn't his idea technically and i'm surprised the Press didn't even check.