Well - that’s how it goes sometimes: I just went through all the five phases of the “Million Dollar Homepage -Fever”.. .:!:. ..and decided to write at least a short article about the Million Dollar Homepage.

What happend.?! Well - here’s a short short version of what happened: a young man from Great Britan simply wanted to avoid taking study loans. So he came up with the idea to simply sell a million pixels of advertisement space - for one Dollar each. Greatness!

Now for the five phases: when I first saw that Homepage some time ago, I though (like probably 1 Million other people) something like: “Well. Wow. Hm. Aha.” - and then I tried to forget what I had just seen.
But meanwhile, things have happened: Alex has just sold 999000 Pixels, the last 1000 Pixels are on an auction on Ebay. It’s not too late yet: the auction is still on until 11th of January. But if you’d like to own a piece of internet history, you’ll at least have to bid a little bit more than $150000,-..

Is it now all over anyways?! Perhaps. Or maybe not. Maybe Bill Clinton’s quote from the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin) is just still valid and “Everything is possible”. Maybe.

I took the chance, looked at various other so called Pixel Pages, found a Pixel Page, where you can actually reserve some pixels for free, claimed a 10×50 pixel piece of that page, uploaded a 10×50 pixel TV-Tower and linked it to my Berlin pictures..

..we’ll see what’ll happen..:]

grüße, t..

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