The Million Dollar Homepage, Rebuilt for Today

In 2005, a student named Alex Tew sold a million pixels of his homepage for a dollar each and made internet history. Two decades later, the idea still works — not because attention spans are the same, but because the underlying mechanic hasn't aged: a finite grid, a public price, and the simple satisfaction of owning a permanent, visible piece of it.

One Million Dollar Pixels rebuilds that mechanic as a live, interactive grid. Instead of a flat one-dollar rate, pricing scales with distance from the center — $100 at the heart, down to $1 at the edges (one payment, yours for life) — so early buyers aren't stuck competing on price alone, and newcomers can still claim visible real estate on a budget.

Every block is bought once, drag-selected directly on the grid, and reviewed by a person before it goes live — so the whole canvas stays usable instead of collapsing into spam, the way some clones of the original did.