The Million Dollar Homepage

This idea that is so crazy, it just may work. A soon to be collage student from a small town in Wiltshire, England does not wish to go into debt to pay for school so he has started a new website. "The Million Dollar Homepage" The idea is to sell pixels for $1.00 each and to try and make one million dollars doing so. The pixels will contain a link to any website you like and he has said that the site will be live for at least 5 years. You can see that the homepage has been divided into 10,000 of these 100-pixel blocks (hence there are 1,000,000 pixels in total). The reason for selling them in 100-pixel blocks is because anything smaller would be too small to display anything meaningful. The website has started getting some media attention witch you can see below:

Web

• Channel 4 - Student banks 1m on debt-free life (UK / Sept 8th)
  
• The Register - Student flogs pixels to fund education (UK / Sept 8th)
  
• Virgin.net - Student banks 1m on debt-free life (UK / Sept 8th)
  
• BBC News - Student's debt-avoiding net idea (UK / Sept 7th)
  
• Guardian Unlimited - Student banks on million dollar website (UK / Sept 7th)

Newspapers

Local

• Swindon Advertiser - Student's million dollar pixel plan (UK / Sept 8th)
• Western Daily Press - Million dollar bid on web to stop a student running into debt (UK / Sept 8th)

As of this post 8000 pixels have been sold. If you would like to help support a Business Management student and own a piece of internet histort stop by Alex Tew's site and check it out.