30 May, 2009

Daily Question #78

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Today's question. X created the innovative website Y to raise money for his university education. Identify X and Y.





Cracked by 11 of you!! Good job!

Answer : X - Alex Tew, Y - http://milliondollarhomepage.com

The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The homepage consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.

10 comments:

navinpai said...

Sitter!!
X=Alex Tew
Y=MillionDollarHomepage.Com

lordmaldy said...

Alex Tew's Million Dollar Website that sells ad space for a one-time fee of $1 / pixel.

saurabh said...

Alex Tew, million dollar homepage

Shrey Goyal said...

Hey, Thanks for the Link! Quizzing is surely fun, and more so because of Blogs like this one.
:)

And the answer, The Million Dollar Homepage by Alex Tew.

Unknown said...

Alex Tew, Milliondollarhomepage.com

Chithananda said...

Alex Tew Milliondollarhomepage.com

appu said...

X-alex tew
Y- million dollar home page (1 dollar per pixel)

Kamal Rathi said...

The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew

raghu said...

alex tew n milliondollarhomepage
sheesh, i rmbr seeing this 2-3 years back, twas mostly just empty.

nirmalya said...

easy one...alex tew...milliondollarhomepage.com