Clever idea at the right time, and it got a lot of media attention. There were a lot of copycats that sprung up left and right, but they weren't as successful.
It's an interesting concept as well because the guy could just hand-edit the image and link map, no need to write software to manage it.
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This one from 2005 used pixels, and sold them for $1/pixel:
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
It's a bit sad that most of those links are now dead.
I don't know if the "rent pixel ads" guy is insane or brilliant.
Clever idea at the right time, and it got a lot of media attention. There were a lot of copycats that sprung up left and right, but they weren't as successful.
It's an interesting concept as well because the guy could just hand-edit the image and link map, no need to write software to manage it.
Probably not insane...the guy who created it, Alex Tew, also founded Calm.
Brilliant.