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Featured article: May 10, 2009 The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by 21-year-old student Alex Tew from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the site was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels. Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. The Alexa ranking of web traffic peaked at around 127; as of 9 May 2009, it is 40,044. On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross income. During the January 2006 auction, the website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack and ransom demand, which left it inaccessible to visitors for a week while its security system was upgraded. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Wiltshire Constabulary investigated the attack and extortion attempt. (more...) Recently featured: Pontiac's Rebellion – Restoration of the Everglades – Ursula Franklin Featured picture: May 28, 2025 The Hell Gate Bridge is a railroad bridge in New York City, United States. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands. Its main span is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch across Hell Gate, a strait of the East River that separates Wards Island from Queens. The New York Connecting Railroad began construction of the bridge in 1912, and it opened in 1917. The main span, a two-hinged arch flanked by stone towers on either bank of Hell Gate, was the world's longest steel arch bridge until the Bayonne Bridge opened in 1931. It is one of the few rail connections from Long Island, of which Queens is part, to the rest of the United States. This panoramic photograph shows the main span of the Hell Gate Bridge. The photograph was taken in 2023 looking northeast from the neighboring Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, with Wards Island on the left of the image and Astoria on the right. A tugboat tows a barge in the foreground, having just passed under the Hell Gate Bridge. Photograph credit: Rhododendrites Recently featured: Anemonoides blanda Bluespotted ribbontail ray Black Lives Matter art Wikipedia:Featured content/box-header Lists of mathematics topics Featured portals included here </noinclude> Speculative fiction Articles Love Is Embarrassing Satsu (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Vince Gill Taylor Swift (album) Berners Street hoax St Scholastica Day riot Roon-class cruiser Not in Love (Crystal Castles song) Spyridon Marinatos Weird Faith Llullaillaco Heartburn Hume MRT station Daily News Building Orphic Hymns Topics Line of Duty Overview of SZA Green Bay Packers players History of the National Hockey League Peter Capaldi Detroit Lions draft history Jake Gyllenhaal Green Bay Packers draft history Overview of Rachelle Ann Go Bruno Mars Overview of Ben&Ben Primates 30 (album) Jupiter Overview of Angeline Quinto Lists World Heritage Sites in Tanzania Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders seasons Longhorn beetle species recorded in Britain Electoral history of Joe Biden British Figure Skating Championships AIFF Player of the Year Awards Michelin-starred restaurants in Taiwan 2014 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards 2013 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards Small Faces discography Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1990 Ghost towns in Oklahoma Baseball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam North Korean propaganda slogans Pictures Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli Mongolian warriors pursuing their enemy Captured Viet Cong soldier in a stress position Map of Greece and Anatolia Hellenic pond turtle Common blue Desert elephant spraying sand on herself Grass snake Fawn-breasted brilliant Red-headed barbet Brown-headed cowbird First image scanned to a computer Snowy owl Dua Lipa Mountains at Collioure Articles Pictures Lists Topics Featured: 6741 / T 8327 / T 4655 / T 192 / T Criteria: FA? / T FP? / T FL? / T FT? / T Candidates: FAC / T FPC / T FLC / T FTC / T Removal: FARC / T FPR / T FLRC / T FTRC / T Former: 1,735 / T FFP 422 / T FFT