Its one of the ways of advertising through internet. Actually it gained popularity during the later half of 2005 . Alex Tew, a then 21 year old student from student from Cricklade, Wiltshire, England had to earn money by some means for his university exams. He created a website named " The Million Dollar Homepage " . The index page contained 1000 x 1000 pixels and his idea is to sell each pixel for US $1 . An advertiser can buy a minimum of 10 x 10 pixel to advertise ie to make available of his site url in the million dollar home page. With lots of doubts in him whether the idea will work he just worked on it.
Within 3 days he sold his first 20 x 20 pixel to an online music shop. Thanx for the one who bought. With in a week he earned enough money for his 1st year studies. And the final 1000 pixels was put for auction on ebay and on Jan 11 2006 the pixels went for a winning bid of $38,100.00 with a whole amount of $1,037,100 for the entire million pixels.
Though he earned a lot he couldnt continue his studies because of his popularity in the midst of people.
A lot of pixel websites has come but none of the sites have earned such a popularity.
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