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Originally posted by LAMike
I saw the topic of what was the first program you used. I'm curious when everyone started.
I started in 96... In 94 I got my first machine and taught myself how to do html. There was no front page or anything like that. I used programs like hot dog. They were basically html editors. The the big Windows 95 came out. I then entered a home page making contest and won. 
So from there I started surfing porn and downloading pics from AOL and other places and even some BBS's. I decided I could build a site. So I took all the pictures I had taken and started building a paysite. I then met up with Clay from Paycom and was their second ever client. So I set up a billing option and from there it all started.
Before the paysite I use to own some very large top50 sites which is where people traded traffic before there was thumbnail posts. I use to own teenfactory, thepics, tropicalteens, and one other I cant remember. These sites did hundereds of thousands of hits a day. Plus I had a ton of circle jerk sites that we would send the traffic from top50 to top50 and just skim some of the traffic to send to xpics and they would prepay me like 50 grand a month for a few links. Man it was easy money back then..
whats your story?
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Great story Mike...
Ours was a bit different.
We tried just about everything and couldn't get any traffic.
We started off with AVS sites then launched our own AVS Agecheck.com, still had no traffic. Then we came up with the craziest idea ever. Free hosting to anyone that would use our AVS on their site. That was the key. This was all back in 96.
From then on, we just added programs no other AVS had and made us different. But for about two years, we struggled and struggled. Borrowed money from here, there it was crazy.
Then my brother Gary said, maybe you guys should get an office but we were still scared back then. We were like. That's 1000 bucks a month, what if, what if.
What we learned out of all this. We could of took the easy way out and folded the company but instead, we all stayed positive. Positive things happen tp positive thinkers. 8 years later, about 80 Employees in a 20,000 Square foot building. Can't complain.
So a big thanks to everyone that supported us along the way .
