Mark T was a god himself back then,one of the original board personalities.Karas was a links site competing with PK,Karas got into Ynot membership as a links site I believe.Dec 96.Only 12 sites at ynot.RB didnt start the program till spring 97 I believe...so no they werent huge that early on,pay for clicks and signups were just startin back then.Use the wayback machine to look at how it was back then.
http://www.archive.org/index.html Somebody ought to write a book about 96' and 97' in this biz,the first prospectors.