The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

A guy back in 2005 came up with a get rich quick scheme where he sold 1 million pixels of ad space on his domain to pay for his college education. You'd pay $1 per pixel of ad space until they were all gone. It got a ton of hype and was pretty internet-famous for awhile, so the guy did indeed sell all of the space.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by runn1ng » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 11:12 AM UTC

I randomly clicked on three ads and they all led nowhere.

2/10 will not click again

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by iliaznk » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 11:12 AM UTC

Oh, yeah... good old days. Then the guy also launched a pixel lotto something and made another 250K, by the way. Now he's working here http://www.calm.com/

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by manuelflara » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 11:13 AM UTC

RealGeek wrote: post #5

This was an early example of internet crowd funding.

I don't think so. He just got a bunch of customers to pay for advertisement on his site. Like any business supported on ads, basically.

Re: The Million Dollar Homepage (2005)

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Post by workbench » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 11:15 AM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #3

I remember this and the million and one copies that came after it.

Love how a good few of the adverts are just for more pixel ad pages