Million Dollar Homepage

Welcome to another installment of "Ideas That Are So Awesome That You Probably Thought Of Them First But Just Got Behind For Whatever Reason And Now You're Really Mad At Whoever Actually Did It"; I'll be your host. The internet is great in that ideas can be freely exchanged, given away, elaborated on, stolen, and of course, bought and sold. What many people don't seem to remember is that this oh-so-valuable information on a computer screen is little more than a tightly packed series of colored dots. So the idea follows that you could sell these dots (of which there are an infinite number) to other people online; people who might just be foolish enough to believe that their product or service will somehow benefit. Of course, it's not foolish at all, it's called advertising. What one plucky young genius decided was to sell an entire 1000 x 1000 grid of pixels at the low, low price of $1 a pixel. Of course, that adds up to one million dollars. And lo, the Million Dollar Homepage was born. It was an amazing experiment in word-of-mouth advertising and the power of the internet, but now it can never be done again. Thanks, guy who did it.

Visiting the site is an exercise in futility, as the links all lead to the back-alleys of the internet, places you don't really want to be. I mean, just look at it. Gaudy.