Alright kiddo, have you ever thought about how people make money on the internet? Well, the million dollar homepage is a good example of how some people do it.
You know how when you go on the internet, you see a bunch of different websites with pictures and words on them? Well, the million dollar homepage was a website like that, except the whole point of it was to sell advertisements!
Imagine you have a big sheet of paper that's split up into a bunch of little squares. Each square is like a tiny picture frame. The person who made the million dollar homepage decided to sell each of these tiny squares to people who wanted to advertise something.
People who wanted to buy one of these little squares could put whatever they wanted in it - it could be a picture of their company logo, or a message they wanted to share, or a link to their own website. The person who made the million dollar homepage set a price for each square, and people had to pay that price in order to be able to put their own picture or message in one of the squares.
So lots of different people all bought squares on the million dollar homepage, and put their own pictures and messages in them. If you went to the website, you would see a bunch of little squares with lots of different pictures and messages on them.
Because so many people wanted to buy these squares, the person who made the million dollar homepage made a lot of money! In fact, he made over a million dollars (that's a really big number).
So that's how the million dollar homepage worked - it was basically just a big piece of paper with a bunch of little squares on it, and people paid money to put their own pictures and messages in those squares.