The Million Dollar Homepage

Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005. The home page consisted of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for USD 1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for...