My first show was 1998...my first Vegas show was the IA2000 (now called Internext) at the Venetian in Jan. of 2000
We had a big 20 x 20 booth with a bunch of our girls we flew in from the Southeast for the content company that we used to own.
The show was HUGE back then on the Sands Expo floor.
And I was burning discs of content and selling it right on the floor.
Made around $40,000 in cash sales and 7 figures over the next year in sales from people I met at the booth that year.
Seems crazy now...we were selling photo content (vids weren't technologically practical since most people were still on dial up) and people were buying and making money with our content.
These days, you could just go to google images and get it all for free.
