Started a free site in febuary 1997, on my dial up freespace, within 2 weeks had 2,000 visitors a day in 4 weeks had 20,000. (back then this was quite a lot). Registered teendreams.com in April 97, and started paying for hosting (isp threw me off), stuck a few ads around and a month later was making $50 a day off advertising. Three months later traffic increased to 50,000 daily, one of top ranked sites of its day, I remember The Hun wrote to me to ask a few tips on how I got so much traffic (still got the email!)
20th July 1997 started a paysite, within a month made $5K, quit my job the very next month, and bought a few toys along the way.
