Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

I probably did - I was still trying to figure out if there was a "mainstream adult" market for smoking stuff at the time; I knew there was an active smoking fetish community, since I helped found it on usenet in the early 90s, and started publishing my magazine in 1994. I started my first smoking paysite in early 1999, but it was basically just known by the smoking fetish community. I didn't "let the cat out of the bag" as far as putting up a smoking paysite with a webmaster program until MarcDe gave me a shot with it in 2001. I think it took Brad about a month after that to put a crappy smoking site into his program, of course labelling it "The number-one rated smoking fetish site"

It was while researching billing, traffic, graphics etc. for my first smoking paysite that I ran across the rest of the adult webmaster world, and figured "this may be a great second job when I'm not working on my paysite." It turned out to be a bit of an understatement...a second job that paid six figures a year? Best second job I ever had