Back in 2005, one college student literally sold the intern…

Back in 2005, one college student literally sold the internet pixel by pixel.
Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student in England, came up with a quirky idea to pay for his tuition: create a website with 1 million pixels and sell each pixel as advertising space for $1 apiece.
Businesses and brands rushed to grab a piece of internet history, plastering the page with ads, logos, and random graphics and could even link their pixel to a url.
Within just a few months, the Million Dollar Homepage sold out, earning Tew exactly $1,037,100, thanks to an eBay auction for the final 1000 pixels that sold for $38,000. ��The site became an early viral sensation, symbolizing the creativity of the early web. Nearly 20 years later, the page still exists, though many of the links no longer work, it remains a digital time capsule of the mid-2000s internet, frozen in all its ad-cluttered glory.