The Million Dollar Home Page is a website project of a 21 year old student that earned him a $1 million. In short, he set up this website to sell one pixel for 1 dollar to everybody who is interested to display his logo on this page. The student claims that he was desperate to find nmoney to pay for his studies expenses. The projected attracted a lot of media coverage and now the 1,000 pixels left are auctioned on E-BAY

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