In 4 months, Tew went from broke and aimless to the toast of the internet. But striking gold on the first try came with an unexpected downside — and it led Tew on an introspective journey that eventually netted him a much bigger windfall. In his quaint countryside town, Tew was a misfit entrepreneur. When he finished high school in , he forewent college and decided to pursue an unusual passion: beatboxing.
I'll be frank with you guys, there isn't a whole of a hell of a lot to blog about right now since all my content sources are filled with inauguration news. However, I went to the ol' trusty Blogger's Manual and it said if there is ever a story involving the headline "Porn Castle", it will get clicked. Stoolies are apparently big fans of real estate deals and based on you reading these poorly constructed sentences, the manual is right!
The Million Dollar Homepage was a phenomenon in , but almost a decade on, it stands as a monument to the fragility of the internet: over one-fifth of the links on the site are dead. The site was started by Alex Tew, then a year-old student from Wiltshire. Sold in groups of , each pixel could link to another webpage, and so they were used as advertisements by the companies that bought them. As word spread, and more and more users visited the page to see what the fuss was about, the value of an ad there rose, until, days after it launched, the final pixel was sold.