Alex Tew (* 1984 in Wiltshire, England) had 2005 as the first the idea to sell a Website pixelweise - first for a US Dollar per pixel. Within five months this concept became a large success.

The strangely seeming project was actually born from the emergency: The student looked for for a possibility of finding the money for the study at the University OF Nottingham. In exponential growth, caused by mouth propaganda and the increasing medium reporting, advertised ever more customer on Tews The million dollar homepage (gigantic imagemap of pixels) - predominantly also such, which are noticeable otherwise only as Spammer. Likewise the number of the visitors of the Website grew: According to data Tews were it last 3.2 million in only two weeks (to the turn of the year 2005/2006).

Buyers of a pixel can set one diagram left on arbitrary URL. In the organization of the pixel blocks each buyer is free. Also the texts, which appear when over driving the pictures with the pointer of mouse, can be formulated arbitrary by Tews customer. Tew de-energised its Website on 26 August 2005.

Since 11 January 2006 Alex Tew is according to respectable estimations actually millionaire. The last thousand pixels were auctioneered with an Ebay auction for 38,100 dollar. Spassbieter had driven the price temporarily on over 160,000 dollar. "„The Washington post office "“estimates that a such Erfolgsstory will hardly have to be copied in the Internet. Meanwhile it gives after medium reports over 200 imitators, who are far less successful with their projects however.

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• The million dollar homepage
• Don Oldenburg, A million ton of One - Chances of acres Imitators Can't match This Student's By-the-pixel Web Sales Success ("„Washington post office "“, 11 January 2006)
• On-line criminality: Pixel millionaire should be extorted (mirror on-line one, 18 January 2006)

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