Do you remember the million dollar homepage ? I'm happy to welcome you to the million dollar steemit page !

in #mdhp7 years ago (edited)

I hope you liked the link and clicked on it because, like me, you found the original page was pure genius.
What ? you don't know what is the MDHP ? alright let me tell you what it was about !
Note : this article will cost you 1 minute, thanks in advance for reading and participate to this project.

The Million Dollar Homepage is one of the most important websites in the history of Internet. It is the first million dollar success story that comes to mind, and when we remember that it was all made possible due to clever thinking and novelty design, it makes it much more impressive. Let's take a look at the page itself : MDHP.jpg

Not very sexy huh? you are right but you have to know that The Million Dollar HomePage was created in 2005 and it was the process behind that made it successful.
Who created it ? An Englishman named Alex Tew, and his plan was that this website would help him pay his way through university.

The thought process behind the million dollar homepage is very simple. Tew created a website with a simple header and footer, and between these lines of text was a big 1000×1000 white box. Tew began selling 10×10 chunks of this image to anyone who wanted to purchase one. If you’re having trouble understanding the size of a $100 block of pixels like that, it’s just a bit over half the size of a standard Windows system tray icon. Purchasers had the opportunity to use this space for any purpose, and the most sensible outcome was that buyers would intend to advertise their website or service.

Just as the website was initially pitched, this website lives on today as a beautiful piece of Internet history.

The site is still alive and functional, however more than 221 000 of the million pixels link to dead sites. Another 23 thousands pixels link to nothing at all, but the page was a huge success and the creator made $1,037,100 in five months only.

Now what about the pixel puchasers ? Everbody agrees that they had a lot of exposure for a very low price and wrote their website in the history book of Internet.

Now what about steemit ? I guess you agree with me that cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and the concept of steemit itself is pure genius as it's giving us a chance to participate and and to rewarded for our work.

So why not supporting this article, first by commenting to gain visibility to our blogs/page ? Secondly by sharing this article and giving all of us a chance to make it trendy so we could share our ideas and discussions on how to promote ourselves and steemit, and how to experience this type of win/win situation.

You got the point ? tell me what you think about, i will support all of you guys, remember, sharing is caring ;)

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