The Crazy Story of Pixelon

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The Crazy Story of Pixelon

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May 4, 2022

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In the late 90s, a man calling himself Michael Fenne had a radical idea: why not create a 1,000-channel online video network? The result was PIxelon, a company that in its short history had one of the craziest journeys in tech history.

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