Originally Posted by exportyourbiz-com

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.