Cash pours in for student with $1 million Web idea

[mia]

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!

[OneBlueSky]

1. putting a fairly large DU ad on this page would be cheap . . . n/t

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[Buns_of_Fire]

2. This was posted a few days ago. I was jealous then.

And I'm still jealous. I mean, how dare that young whippersnapper come up with an idea like this? :grr: (And, uhh... Is he available to employ?)

A slight warning: If you click on the "milliondollarhomepage" link above, it'll take a little while to load. Keep in mind that, not only will you be downloading the page, you'll also be downloading every hotlink on the page! And there's a bunch of them! :-)

Hats off to Mr. Tew. (I wonder if he'd be interested in my "Bag O' Rocks" franchise?)

[firefox]

3. Pretty amazing thought

It is an unbelievable billboard. The term "pixel ads" appears on the homepage. I wonder if the young man created or inspired the term?

[QuettaKid]

5. yep...I posted this

last week and I agree...was jealous then and am INSANELY jealous now....

[Longhorn]

4. My daughter told me about this at Thanksgiving.

His blog is fascinating, watching the money come in. Then he had a trip to the U.S. In between, he's trying to go to class. Really cool!

[SmokingJacket]

6. Good for him!

It's nice to see someone make money with a good idea rather than by exploiting people.

[Stand and Fight]

7. ...

[Ian David]

8. Of course, GoldenPalace.com has a banner there. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. GoldenPalace.com has banners EVERYWHERE! :-)

Now, if I can only figure out how to make a grilled cheese sandwich with "GoldenPalace.com" magically appearing on it...