TL;DR
Million Nickel Page began in 2005, inspired by the legendary Million Dollar Homepage. It owns a 400-pixel advertisement on the original site—and its million-pixel canvas is still open for anyone who wants to leave their mark on internet history.
It started with a million-dollar idea
In 2005, British student Alex Tew launched the Million Dollar Homepage: a 1,000 × 1,000-pixel canvas where businesses could buy advertising space for $1 per pixel.
The brilliantly simple experiment became a worldwide phenomenon. All one million pixels sold, and the finished page became a permanent, colourful snapshot of the early internet.
The five-cent alternative
MillionNickelPage.com emerged during that same remarkable moment in internet history—with space available for just $0.05 per pixel.
It wasn’t created by Alex Tew, but it secured its own place in the story by purchasing a 400-pixel advertisement on the original Million Dollar Homepage. That advertisement and its link to MillionNickelPage.com remain there today.
One canvas, one million pixels
The idea remains simple: choose a space on the 1,000 × 1,000 canvas, upload your artwork and become part of the page.
It might be your company, project, artwork, community, message or simply something wonderfully strange. Every space is sold only once, gradually turning the canvas into a collective record of the people who discovered it.
Leave your mark
Million Nickel Page celebrates the colourful, personal and experimental spirit of the early web—while giving a new generation the chance to become part of it.
Claim your space for $0.05 per pixel.
MillionNickelPage.com is independently owned and operated. It is not affiliated with Alex Tew or the Million Dollar Homepage.