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Originally Posted by Anthony
So you were in 1996? The industry was way smaller then. You must have rubbed shoulders with The General, Serge, Rick Schwarts (When he was making banners), Scott Phillips, etc.
What did you do then? Cause most of the guys I posted are retired with their millions.
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Probably the tail end of 96 or early 97...
I just used adult as a way to send traffic to a mainstream internet design company (got no market leads out of it... lol)
It was late 97 or early 98 when I first started sending traffic to an affiliate program (3 cents per click @ call-girls.net) Made a whack of sign-ups with their celeb banners and then the whole Pamela Anderson thing hit and it really took off from there.
Never capitalized on the opportunity to get big because I was still in high-school at the time, didn't have a CC, etc and basically used the cash on the side as beer & pizza money while I was working for a paintball place.
Really basic stuff in the beginning, spamming IRC channels, spamming to AltaVista when they were indexing on a daily basis, galleries using stolen content from Karup's & Gamma.
I didn't really deal with others in the industry, I would peek at YNOT every once in a while and read Andy Dunn's newsletter but that was about it until NetPond.