I made my first adult site in 1996 on my ISP's space, and with stolen images. Got listed on persiankitty. Then someone emailed me and told me it was a bad idea to steal pics, and my ISP threatened me with $10k bill per month on bandwidth, so I took the shit offline.
I then, in 1997 or so registered my first domain, and bought some content from web-legal. I played with it until 1999 when I had to take mandatory military service, in 2000 I moved to my own apartment and started to work more in adult. At this point my job was to drive a cab, I got caught speeding and lost my license for 3 month.. a perfect opportunity to start working full-time. That was summer of 2000. Income wasn't good, as I was a retard.
In 2001 I found out that there was a community of people I can learn from. Before this I hadn't red any tutorials, and hadn't networked with anyone. I just did things my way..and without much success.
I joined boards and have since multiplied my monthly income (and expenses :P) many times over.
The short history of TGF. you're welcome.