The story of an early internet artifact that was speedrunning the next two decades of business on the web – in 2005, The Million Dollar Homepage was a website that displayed one million pixels in a 1000x1000 grid, each of which were sold online for $1:
- Alex Tew
- Pixel counter and scarcity
- Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
- Final sales via eBay auction
- Link rot
- Piexlotto sequel, copycats, and other inspiration
- The Calm app (meditation)
- The Million Dollar Homepage today
This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:
- A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab, 2017.07.21)
- Alex Tew (Wikipedia, 2024.12.29)
- FAQs (The Million Dollar Homepage, archived 2011.07.17)
- How the Million Dollar Homepage kid became the $250M app man (The Hustle, 2018.05.12)
- I Bought a Million Dollar Piece of Internet History (YouTube, Nostalgia Nerd, 2021.08.08)
- Story of The Million Dollar Homepage (YouTube, Tech Inspection, 2022.05.10)
- The Million Dollar Homepage (Wikipedia, 2024.12.29)
- The man behind the million-dollar homepage (BBC, 2016.09.15)
- This Entrepreneur Skipped College and Made $1,037,100 in Five Months (Entrepreneur, 2017.04.24)
Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!
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