jayeff

Isn't that a bit like saying that if Iran dropped the religious stuff it would be a cool country?

It's hard to call some of the older programs irrelevant when they built up such a big presence before their owners apparently lost interest. As others have said, the program owners - and a lot of webmasters - may still be earning money from them. But in terms of sponsors which got stuck in a time warp, you don't have to look much further than the few old-style AVS programs which are still around: they are planted firmly in 1998 and the last time I looked they weren't even bothering to pretend any longer that they had any plans to change that.

Otherwise yes, Maxcash only belatedly seem to be showing some signs of a willingness to compete in the post Z-Master era; CEcash have been limp ever since the steam ran out of free mags; Dollar Machine, like MC doesn't seem to want to let go of the good-old, bad-old days; and Oxcash I guess is left online to show others how to let a great program die. I suppose Porn Mega Bucks is another program I would have expected to have left the scene by now, but is still around.

I don't get a very good feeling about how any of the oldest sponsors are doing recently. There were a handful who for years were among my best sponsors, but this last 1-2 years seem to have go into a slide. Most are reacting, which is good, but doing so by apparently trying to turn themselves into clones of other programs, losing what made them special along the way. I have a suspicion there will be a few more industry icons to add to the dinosaur list in a couple of years.