In 2005, a college student made a million dollars by selling pixels online

Here's a BBC report on him from 2016: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160914-the-man-behind-the...

Mirrored FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20060306132156/http://www.millio...

A then he became co-founder of calm.com

Not bad.

I'm sure he made a bit less... Taxes, Operating costs (AWS wasn't around back then), etc..