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Title: Some days, I hate the internet. Post by: Roac on December 29, 2005, 02:02:41 PM Million Dollar Homepage. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/29/student.homepage.reut/index.html)
Short ver - kid sets up a website, and charges $1/pixel to buy ad space, in sets of 10x10 pixel blocks. With a million pixels, it would cost $1m to buy the site. The odd thing is, it's worked - the guy has sold over 900k pixels so far. Here's the award for stupidist idea that actually took off. Title: Re: Some days, I hate the internet. Post by: Samwise on December 29, 2005, 02:50:08 PM Sweet merciful crap.
I only wish I'd thought of it first. Wow, and actually looking at the page, I'm not the only one - a significant portion of the ads on the original page are links to copycats hoping to cash in on the idea. :-o Doesn't look like any of them are succeeding, though. Title: Re: Some days, I hate the internet. Post by: Nebu on December 29, 2005, 09:17:58 PM What's next? Someone placing a rock in a box with some straw and selling millions of them as pets? (http://individual.utoronto.ca/elaine/petrock.htm)
Title: Re: Some days, I hate the internet. Post by: HaemishM on January 03, 2006, 12:34:29 PM That page reminds me of an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode.
Title: Re: Some days, I hate the internet. Post by: Polysorbate80 on January 03, 2006, 02:02:32 PM That page reminds me of an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode. Or pressing "Play All" by mistake on the season 4 ATHF DVD ... |