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The greatest internet success story is the story of Pierre Omidyar, a French-Iranian born in Paris who migrated to the USA. Omidyar believed that the human race is basically good and that online selling and buying would work. This is a man who believed that auction online would work, yet, he had never been to an auction all his life. Thus, in 1995, he tried and set up his own site called Auctionweb which mainly sold antique,books, eletrical equiptment, comics and computer items. Remarkably, despite the naysayers who said it wouldn't work, it did.

Omidyar left his regualr job and hired a single employee by the name of Chris Agarpao. Actionweb was doing so well, though at that time he only had a modest office with only about two chairs and a table. Despite this, in 1995, Auctionweb hosted over ten thousand bids. His business was working so he decided to later call his enterprise Echo Bay, but that name was taken by a Canadian company in Nevada. So he settled for ebay. Yes, the same great Ebay today. Seeing the profitability of the idea, real enterpreneurs were only too willing to help him - including Magraret Whitman (now Mccain's Campaign Manager) who helped develop ebay into the what it is today. Last we heard from Omidyar he was drining a 4 million dollar car and he's retired at 41. He founded the Omodyar Network that does philantrophy and humanitarian work positively affecting millions of people.

There were also the four young Israeli teenagers in 1996 who started Mirabilis net and tried to invent a "chatting" software. These four young teenagers then, were all computer "nerds", who wanted to give out free soft ware that anyone can download to communicate with anyone in the world. Thus, was born ICQ. In 1998, AOL bought the software from Mirabilis and these "kids" are now retired millonaires. That's the second best success internet story. Today there are 700 million users of ICQ in the planet.

At 21 years old Mark Zukerberg, a computer "nerd" since he was in grade 6, decided to come up with a computer programme that can be used for all Harvard students for networking and showing off their profiles. This later expanded to include most of the Coleges and Universities in the USA. He lauched Facebook in March 2004. Today, there are about 7 million users all over the globe.

Alex Tew was just an extremely broke College student who needed money. After some thirty minutes of "desperate thinking" he came up with the idea of selling one million pixels of advertising space

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