Cast your memory back to 2005 - the year Destiny's Child and Blink 182 came to an end, Brangelina began, the Harry Potter movie franchise was only on book 4, everyone was talking about the first season of Lost and YouTube had only just become a thing. In amongst all that pop culture, some guy on the internet managed to make $1,000,000 from selling advertising space on a single web page for $1 per pixel. Whatever happened to that page? Let's put on our "internet historian" hats and find out.

Well it's still online - that's the first box ticked. And the main page still looks pretty much the same as it did straight after all the pixels were sold (by October 2015 according to the Internet Archive. The other pages on the site seem to be all gone but again you can find them on the Internet Archive if you want to. We also have a link to the Twitter account of the aforementioned "some guy" - Alex Tew - now working on a mindfulness/meditation app.

So what about the sites that stumped up $100 for the minimum 10x10 grid or more for their space on this "piece of internet history" - the real question I wanted an answer to was how many of those sites are still active, propelled to greatness by their advertising investment, and how many have fallen into the black hole of HTTP error codes, their tribute offered to the Gods of the Internet painfully ignored.