Cash pours in for student with $1 million Web idea

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 1:29 p.m. ET

By Peter Graff


LONDON (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.

Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.

Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.

He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university....

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1137280&tw=wn_wire_story


http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/



Nice to see a good idea take wing!