In August 2005, British Student Alex Tew was at home, thinking about how to pay for University. He decided to launch a website selling pixel space to advertisers. The website had 1,000,000 pixels available and each pixel cost an advertiser just US$1. The Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage) was born.

Within 6 months, he had become a millionaire, was world famous and had started a trend leading to thousands of copycat sites. Ironically, the idea which was supposed to help him fund his education, made him drop out of University after just one term: he had BIGGER FISH TO FRY.

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