I did it one year later... if only then I realized what would have happened if I had gone commercial........

I was living in the US since 1996 and on Mardis Gras 97 I met Lance and Oasis who did already run the Oasis amateur site. They became good friends and because I was a computer programmer I thought damn its easy enough to do websites. I remember how easy it was to start up these days. They offered me a space on their server but I outgrew their traffic fast and got my own server early in 98.
I also still use Notepad and use Visual Basic to program page making utilities. I would love those easy times back where people just did nice traffic trades and nobody seems envy of the success others had. Only a few scammers were in business (XPIC comes in mind) and live was beautiful.

they say since 1997 cuz in 1996 there was only a handful of us and we'd know you were bullshitting =)

OH OH! Another blast from the past, that!

Arka, Arka, Arka!

My first site was Eve's Bedroom, late 1995 ;)

http://www.darkcorners.com/kman2.jpg

Five, I'll give you a call, bro! WHen is good for you?

Hit me up on ICQ (check my profile), and let me know! I'll have to tell the ol man I ran into you! He'll get a kick out of it. :1orglaugh

Talk to you soon!

:winkwink:

Just got out of community college and entered a real college to get my bach degree in animation......

would be 2 more years before I made my very first "adult check" site as an experiment (but it did well....I was making $650 a week from it and it wasnt even a gold site!!!)

Haha.. Just had a similar conversation a couple of days ago with a mate of mine who started at the same time as me. We couldn't remember if we started in 97 or 98, but I remember doing this part time regardless for at least 6 or 7 months before I quit my day job.

I ran with a paid virtual hosting in Sweden using a subfolder (no domain name) for about a year, started out by using my own shot content. Yahoo was not paid to be listed and AltaVista - You could submit a new site and would be listed the next day, spidered every 24 hours.

97?
I did free sites on my ISP's webspace and cheated SE's.
What great fun it was.

Who remembers the old (yahoo) submission trick? ;)

THOSE were the good old days!

Hah 1997 ...... i was spamming AOL.

Great story man! LOL You'd get your ass suid bigtime now, when you get 90k on a site with unlicensed celeb content. :)

Seb.

I'm not sure about that one. What was it?

You could submit to Yahoo and next to your email addy you would put (yahoo) which was the insider trick for an express submission, usually 24 hours and never denied!

Ok... I don't think I knew about that one.

I remember there was a way to email a certain address at Yahoo that wasn't widely known, but doing so got your submission immediate attention, and you usually heard back from a representative within 48 hours. They used to have the email address on the site, but it was really hard to find. A friend of mine back then pulled my coat to it, and sure enough it did work.

I never really submitted much to the search engines and never coded my sites with a lot of meta info back then, but for some reason I always got high rankings on Altavista, Lycos, and Magellan (I think that was the name). At one point, I was receiving 15,000 hits to one of my sites from the search engines. I remember joining CE's "High Rollers" program and just making a killing with the 50 cents per click sliding scale ratio.

Good times. Good times.
:winkwink:

Don't do ICQ, I type too slow and it get's me nervous. Call anytime but mornings, CDT (later the better, I'm a night owl). Have something working for Mardi Gras this year you might could get into...

Tell your dad "HI!" and all. I get a big smile still from thinking about way-back-when with the "cat walking across the bed" in that video. Good stuff that! Still have the tape...

Wow do I have a friggin history. What a great ride, maybe some day I'll do a biography on this shit...

In 1995, I was doing a site called Cyberbabes, some of you might have heard of it. I was also in grad school, faculty at the University of Miami as an instructor (I was a professor to professors and grad students on CIS), and on staff at a local ISP/design house called Guru Communications. They liked me because I added credibility to their services. I remember my first corporate site I worked on was for Bombardier (Sea-doo.com and Ski-doo.com). Anyway, Cyberbabes was a free site plugging mostly Decadence, and I was really good friends with them. Once day I was out in Vegas and I met a porn star that had a dungeon and I came up with the idea of wiring it for live. Back then you didn't have commercially available streaming solutions, so we had to buy a beast Sparc and run it with Decadence's solution. Then the porn star went psycho and dropped them. We found two other buyers, NTL, which is now Video Secrets, and Webpower, at the time Amateurs.com, then Fastporn and now IFriends.

For a time in 1997, we were probably the biggest per minute video company there was. We had studios in Vegas and Philly and did backends for pretty much everybody, including Pornication. Life was good.

I remember all you old guys. It was Amber from ARG that got me to my first webmaster show. I did every Adultdex from the early 90's when I used to sell CD-Rom's. I have pics of Zmaster's founder Lee Noga getting an AMEE award at the Adultdex. I remember calling KMan when he lived in barracks. I remember meeting DMan (PLR) in the Monte Carlo whilst asking girls if they did anal.

I'm going to start a thread of people I would cast for my biography.

Needless to say, we've done really well so far on this interweb thingy. Now BUY MY CONTENT!

Too funny Mike...you and K-Man are among the few that knows me as "Amber of ARG" (although it's still my company, it's not what most associate me with ;>).

Mike, you were the first person Rett and I met 'in person' on the internet side of porn - do you remember - it was before any IA's at the East Coast Video show in Atlantic City...I think in 95...or was it 96? And to think, I'm STILL kicking your ass in air-hockey (bumps and bruises aside)!!

K-man...awww yes, the barracks - I remember those late night calls well! In fact, I still have the first picture you ever sent to me and Rett...of your dick! lol :Graucho

Lars, what do you mean that you're, "not the richest one around"?! ? dude, I've seen your car and I'm not buying it! :winkwink:

And the first person to ever send me traffic...was Serge!

Who is the first person that ever hooked you up with traffic??

Wow.. 97 huh?

97 i think i was busy hazing pledges in our college fraternity and trying to figure out how an old "junior" like me could still scam freshman pussy.

If only i had owned a PC and a camera back then ;-)

100:::

In early 1997, I was reading alot about Adultcheck, and articles about AVSs, while I was working at a Microbiology lab in Gainesville, Florida.

Later that year, I brought up my first AVS site. It was an Adultcheck Regular site gothic/fetish/bdsm/dom focused. I was a noob to the industry, and it was before I learned a few things, so, my site of course had 100% stolen content on it. ;) Alot of it came from the Gothic Babe of the Week site. LOL

I soon realized, that stolen content was a bad idea, as my phone would not stop ringing with pissed off goth girls calling me from every corner of the U.S.

So, I purchased some licensed stuff, and kept it going. I started site design with my first html tag back in 1991. Prior to that, I did a few graphics and animation projects for Apple Computers in San Jose, California using a Mac Plus, and a MacII prototype.

That's about it though.
:glugglug

I actually did start my site in '97, no affiliate program back then though since it was an AVS site. =)

I think you were the one who taught me that trick in mid '97 when calling to get added stopped working.

Remember getting C&D's from Pamela Anderson for selling her videos? :1orglaugh

Remember FantasyMan's "Stampede Day" that he hyped for months. Turned out to be the release of ClubPix.

Remember the WSS Pyramid program? I thnk PK cleaned up on that one. Seems like EVERYONE signed up under her.

Ahhhh......submit, wait a week, submit, wait a week and then call...."the number"........I remember when there were only about 5 of us using it....but like everything else a few people exploited it and started giving it to their friends and they took it away and I haven't made a dime off yahoo since :(

The good ol' days rocked :)


--T

Ahhh, Memories...

i believe the term 'time is relative' is the answer mwahahaha

In 97 I was 15 years old.

:)

well, I started my site www.landofvenus.com in 1997, but started my affiliate program in 1998. never worked for anyone else but me, my site has not closed or off line the entire time.
But as for others, they just want to be like me :)

personally when someone says they have been doing this since 19xx I take it as they have been running a website non-stop, not doing other things.

ya 5i's was awsome, I got tons of signups from his board. then h e went and made it pay and the signups stopped from him...good ole days when there were tons of real free sites that sent awsome traffic

In 1997 I did freesites on my ISP's hosting.. Then they shut me down and I started expanding my operations..

1997 wants a good year for me...i was fucking 12 years old in 1997! :1orglaugh

Who give a shit about the past though. We will be talking about 2005 being the 'good times' in 2010.

I got into this niz in late 98, early 99.

i was going to college for tool and die in 97. realized i hated working in factories in the beginning of 98. started fucking around online and making free celeb sites in the summer of 98. and finally started making a living off it in the fall of 98. i didn't even use the net till January 98 tho so i missed the 97 boat. i sure wish i would of gotten online a few years earlier.

In 97 I was 15, had no computer, and spent my days fucking girls even more underage than I was myself, smoking weed and trying out every other drug known to man.

The next year I got a computer, found the internet, got hooked, built a site, put porn on it that I found on other sites, put some banners on it too ($0.20 a click.... those were the days), and thus started my career in porn.

1997 I was in 8th grade. :winkwink:

I started a free site on my ISP's server in 1996 and didn't register my first domain until 29 sep 1997.

Domain Name: CELEBS4FREE.COM
Creation Date: 06-sep-1997

hacking eggdrops and making adultcheck celeb sites :o)

I remember you from adultcheck. There was also some other guy who had like 300 adultcheck sites I used to think was the shit.

A lot of us got started doing adultcheck sites back in the day.

"polesmoker" :1orglaugh