The Million Dollar Home Page

I just wanted to take the time this week to comment on one of the most fascinating and simple ways anyone has ever got rich through the internet. It is no surprise that companies like Google, Yahoo or YouTube have revolutionized the way we use the internet. But this particular example is just plain mind example. I am of course speaking about Alex Tew's "Million Dollar Homepage" - www.milliondollarhomepage.com. Alex Tew is a 21 year old student in England and was apparently looking for a way to fund his school education, so he started thinking!!
Alex created a simple website which was an index page consisting of a 1000* by 1000* grid where he would sell individual pixels for the purpose of adverstising. Within 2 weeks he was able to pay his college for the year and within the next little while sold his last share on Ebay making him a millionaire, each pixel at $1. This is absolutly insane! A low budget website like his with simply a brilliant idea.
What I also found amazing and speaks to the amazingness of the internet is how he sold his shares! The INTERNET!! He used Ebay to sell many of his shares and used the internet to its full resources. I just thought I would mention this idea because I thought it was absolutly incredible. The resourcefullness of the internet really has few limits. I think what we should be doing in class is developing a potential way to exploit what is available to us. We need to come up with something that will make us crazy rich while providing a new and innovative way to use the internet. The field of history I am sure has plenty of possibilities for creative invention using the internet, any ideas???