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Remember the Million Dollar Homepage?

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 home page 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 absurdness novelty of the idea turned it into an Internet phenomenon, and in under 6 months all the pixels were sold, grossing $1,037,100 in total (the last 1000 pixels were auctioned on eBay and sold by $38,100).

It looked something like this:

Well now you can get a poster of this piece of Internet history and stick it in the wall in front of you as a source of inspiration, a way to remind you that even the most idiotic ideas can be worth a lot of money. It will also make your eyes bleed.

The Million Dollar Homepage
The Million Dollar Homepage Poster (unavailable at the moment, but you can get it at Firebox)

You’re probably familiar with the now famous “Hope” poster used by Barack Obama in his presidential campaign.

Well, Obamicon.me makes it easy to create your own stylized poster with your own slogan. Here’s my first attempt:

(via Lifehacker)