dub3 card · www.milliondollarhomepage.com
Million Dollar Homepage (2005)
1,000,000 pixels sold for $1 each to fund a student's education.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
On reveal: The first card you play next round costs 2 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 2005
A single web page of a million pixels, sold in small blocks as tiny adverts to pay for a student's university course.
Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, charged $1 a pixel. The last 1,000 pixels went on eBay in January 2006, taking the total to $1,037,100, and the idea spawned copycat sites.
In 2005: Went live on 26 August, set up by 21-year-old Tew for about 50 euros of domain name and hosting.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run Million Dollar Homepage, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Million Dollar Homepage in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
