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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
Does anyone know when, what year at least, the first site appeared that gave you a free membership to a password protected site in exchange for only your confirmed email address?
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That development happened a long time after the first double-opt-in lists appeared. I guess it took some time for paysite owners to figure out that they could allow a surfer into a membership area by using the email as a form of payment.
The first two sites that I can remember as doing this were the 4FreeBuck group - that let surfers in for free with only an email address - almost 2 years ago now.
Before that was Purefuck.com, which let surfers in for free in exchange for an email address, but used a credit card for age-verification and never charged the card. That was probably just over 2 years ago.