The History of GFY

.. life goes full circle, and there is tremendous loss to process.

Add L-Pink (Lpink?) to this list. Actually, I don't even know exactly what he did in the business, but he was a cool guy here on the board. he just disappeared one day and if I recall correctly, someone had mentioned that he passed away.

Whatever happened to Juicy and who was behind Achmed?. Achmed's shit was hilarious. He still owes me some 'stuff'

I see Juicy posting on some of my friend's facebook posts pretty often.

Back in the day, it was’t a party until juicy and mr izz showed up. Mr izz got married, and juicy was never the same.
When too much John threw a party, and juicy was there, you knew it was going late. This was the best of times.

John aint gonna like me cause I just cancelled NATS on a network I took half ownership of.

Oopsie

Nats is awesome though, man

Whatever happened to Juicy and who was behind Achmed?. Achmed's shit was hilarious. He still owes me some 'stuff'

Who wants to know?

Whatever happened to Juicy and who was behind Achmed?. Achmed's shit was hilarious. He still owes me some 'stuff'

I guess everyone is retired now? How long is the average career in this business?

Too varied to call it...

I was on the fringes of the biz in the late 70s, shot and sold my first porn movie in 84, and despite officially 'retiring' in 2013, (No longer creating new content) I still have content I uploaded years ago to clips4sale, still bringing me in a little money here and there...

Others come in, find they cant make a fortune overnight, and are gone within a few weeks...

Like I said, too varied to call...

I guess everyone is retired now? How long is the average career in this business?

I'm still alive and wearing my long sleeve GFY shirt regularly ... very good quality, only dark grey now instead of black

Nobody knows who I am, its ok.

Ah, I learned early in my bannings not to fuck with the boards revenue.

oh wow. I really liked that dude, had an awesome sarcastic wit

I remember when he just dropped off the board out of the blue, I figured it was cuz he moved and either retired or got a new job in a diff biz

damn, RIP if true

A proud 50 people got those long sleeve shirts.

Still BP4L..
Ive just been hiding because my GFY Death Pool pick didnt win and Ive been avoiding paying out the winner.

I'm still alive and wearing my long sleeve GFY shirt regularly ... very good quality, only dark grey now instead of black

Nobody knows who I am, its ok.

I was on the fringes of the biz in the late 70s, shot and sold my first porn movie in 84, and despite officially 'retiring' in 2013

Also Mayya, your English is vastly improved from all your previous posting, are you sure this isn't your boyfriend posting this?

I had a black one and a red one. I think I ended up donating them to our equivalent of Goodwill. I don't imagine they ended up on the rack

I'm still alive and wearing my long sleeve GFY shirt regularly ... very good quality, only dark grey now instead of black

Nobody knows who I am, its ok.

Wow. You were there at the early.

One summer around '80 I worked as a gofer for Screw and Al G. But it was 25 years b4 I made content.

Wish i still had my Screw t-shirt.

I loved Screw in the 90's

My husband first registered in 2001 and had a long sleeve GFY T-Shirt sent to him by Lensman as being one of the first 50 to register on GFY.

He attended many GFY gatherings.

Recently with a few other "older" webmasters he was on a podcast reliving the history of online adult industry.

How many other places have gone by the wayside?

GONE:
PornResource
iBill
CozyFrog


DEAD:
Paul Markham: Photographer, probably one of the best ever (Heart Failure, cancer)
David Lace: Photographer, one of the largest ever collections (Heart attack)
JFPDude: Content guy, photographer (Drug Overdose)
Turboface: Traffic, scammer (Patrick Tither, suicide)
TurboAngel: Traffic, scammer (Last information was rehab, then silence)
LowKeyTx: Photographer, arrested for child p***, (James Greuel, Cancer)
GraphicsByTia: Graphics, Banners, Buttons (Suicide)

So many webmasters have died from this forum that actually helped shape the adult industry, it is now a skeleton of what it once was.

Looking at PRE 2005 webmasters, how many are actually left here on GFY?


Boneprone
Lensman
SexToyKing


anyone else left?

Hello 72 posts

I talked with Trixie Racer a few years ago. She had had some health issues and moved to Costa Rica (or was it Panama?)

Remember once upon a time, people would sell their sig for $1000-1500 a month?

my stupid little life

(american beauty reference). Anyhoo, people have been asking me for around 7
years to drop the story on my biz. Here it is. It will probably bore the fuck
out of most of you, so feel free to skip:

1996, i am taking a cyberphilosophy course at the university of alberta (i
think it was numbered 365). We did a bunch of things, but one of the things i
took away from it was that this internet thing could make money. Before i'd
finished uni (major in genetics, minor in philosophy), i had a couple of
accounts/pages set up with several adult verification services (adultcheck was
the one that really got me going). So my parents are stoked that i'm making
money, as i'd been a starving student since i started university. Gf at the
time was stoked too. Though i did get both mine and my gf (at the time's)
university accounts shut down for excessive usage lol.

Around a year later, i started a small (read: Shitty) paysite, using interbill
as the processor. I don't think many people remember interbill, but anyway,
they were super sketchy.

1997, i'm making around 4500 bucks a month, then, interbill stops paying me,
and i am freaking the fuck out. In the end, they do actually pony up the amount
owed (six months later) but by then i am with ibill, and was just barely able
to cover the rent.

How was i getting traffic at this point? Spamming the seach engines of course.
It was easy as fuck to get a reasonable amount of traffic. Infoseek? Altavista?
Yep. Load a page full of keywords, upload, and you were good to go. Rinse and
repeat.

1998, by now, i have an okay income, around 8k a month, life is good for a 24
year old guy straight out of uni. Hooked up with a new gf, and using the money
i'd save up (around 10k or so), we built a new paysite, and i dropped the 10k
on a search engine called goto.com (it's called overture now) for advertising.
They were the first (i believe) search engine to offer paid listings. Anyway,
it was a complete and utter failure lol.

Girl leaves me, and things kind of go sour. My income drops to 4k a month, i am
seriously considering going back to uni to do a masters, or possibly a trade
school (my dad runs a small electrical company).

Then: Someone (whoever you are, thank-you) submits one of my random spam
galleries to the hun. Bam. My piddily little virtual account could not handle
the traffic (obviously), and i was super pissed. But then the sun came up over
the horizon. This could actually be a good thing. I knew that night, that i
would become a multi-millionaire. Of course, no one i knew believed me lol. I
remember telling my dad and my best friend exactly that right after the hun
listing, and they thought i was crazy. I totally understand why though. Because
it sounded crazy.

1999, i am making a solid 20k a month. Pretty happy with everything. Enter
davidd, formally of candid hosting. Gave some great technical advice and super
helpful 24 hrs a day. This is the point where i am adding server after server
because the demand for my new, high quality (for the time) paysite and
especially the endless galleries is going insane.

2000, i start shooting all exclusive video content (not personally lol).
Redesigned the site (you know what, i have almost told no one this, but i have
designed ever reiteration of ultrawiredsex.com myself lol, straight up html by
yours truly), and hired a team, an actual team of people, to do nothing but
submit to tgps, to buy spots on tgps and build galleries. We worked 100 hours a
week, but i paid my employees well. Scaled the fuck out of tgp submission. I
also bought all of the top hun listings. They were a bit of a pain in the ass
some times, but i got every available listing.

2001, just cranking the submissions, making 350k a month, after expenses.
Getting the video on every tgp on the planet. Nice office in banff, canada,
with 6 people working around the clock.

2002, i *think* this is about the time mark (gts) came into the picture. We
cranked their paid submissions about as hard as you can crank anything. Money.

2003, not much changed.

2004, ibill goes tits up. I was lucky, and got paid far longer than a lot of
other guys. I got paid consisistently until april 2005. They still owe me
around a quarter million dollars though. Don't think i'll ever see it lol.

2005, retired.

What i did i learn from all of this? Scale. If you have something, anything,
that works, scale that cocksucker up to as high as it will go.

Ps: Take a flight on the concorde ;)

cheers boys and girls.

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Btw is the moderator of this board still alive ?

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