Back in da dayz.. bandwidth was a lot more expensive if you paid for it. Otherwise you had a bunch of free hosts who did not worry as much about the TOS as today where you post a nice pic, get some decent hits, and they close you down in an hour.
You had a bunch of those pay per click scams where they all promised to pay you .02-05ct a click, and never did.
If you had relevant content, you actually got a good page listing on the search engines, and it wasn't unheard of to be on the first page or two w/o much effort.
Tech support for a number of things was fairly nonexistant depending on what it was.
You had a bunch of complete crap sites littering the net. So if you looked for something, you'd find 100's of sites that looked like they were done by 12 year olds.
You could actually FIND something on a search engine w/o having to do advance searchs, useing "'s, and all the rest.
You made money hand over fist if you had a good site, good content, and traffic as you were in a small pond, versus the ocean of sharks like today.
You did not have conglomertes running everything, like today. Most were fairly small, independants.
Those are some I can think of off the top of my head, but I am sure there are plenty more. There have been a lot of changes since '96 when I started my first site, which nothing more than a whoo hoo I can do html. But now you have a deep ocean of 'companies' versus individuals.
