The Official "Over 10 Years in this Biz" thread...

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

We are going on 12 years give or take a few months.
From AVS/AEN to Private label credit cards and everything else.

Post away if you have been in this biz for over a decade?

[TheDoc]

10 years strong this year

[MikeSmoke]

Started with my magazine in 94, moved online a few years later...

[baddog]

Started in '96

[BIGTYMER]

I'm going on 7.

[Babaganoosh]

First adult (and mainstream) site in 1996. Hard to imagine I have been doing this for so long.

[Chio]

Started in '96

Same here. I think I was the 87th (give or take a few) webmaster on Adult Check. All down hill from there

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

Same here. I think I was the 87th (give or take a few) webmaster on Adult Check. All down hill from there

WOW, that was a long time ago.
Yeah, I agree...10 years went quick.

[baddog]

Same here. I think I was the 87th (give or take a few) webmaster on Adult Check. All down hill from there

I remember thinking AVS was a joke. I mean the concept of letting someone on my site for free simply because they had paid someone else for access to their site was something I could not comprehend.

Little did I know that a few years later I would run, then own a system.

[Chio]

I remember thinking AVS was a joke. I mean the concept of letting someone on my site for free simply because they had paid someone else for access to their site was something I could not comprehend.

Little did I know that a few years later I would run, then own a system.

I saw the value in it immediately. I made a shitload of money and also started my own AVS so I could effectively double my income without really doing anything different.

The money that I made with those initial avs sites and the avs itself I reinvested into a number of different business both online and off.

I am still reaping the rewards from that dinky little avs site I started so many years ago. It's been a fun ride.

Thanks Adult Check and AgeCheck bum rap on that btw Dave.

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

I saw the value in it immediately. I made a shitload of money and also started my own AVS so I could effectively double my income without really doing anything different.

The money that I made with those initial avs sites and the avs itself I reinvested into a number of different business both online and off.

I am still reaping the rewards from that dinky little avs site I started so many years ago. It's been a fun ride.

Thanks Adult Check and AgeCheck bum rap on that btw Dave.

It's all good, shit happens and you get stronger.
Great stories though, thanks for sharing.

[thumbsdepot]

<--10+ years

Here a few sites I made back in '99 using Cyberage.
http://www.sexycyberwebsites.com/teens/
http://www.sexycyberwebsites.com/ashley

[Zebra]

Full-time since Nov. '96.

[Jim_Gunn]

Sixteen years for me. Got in the porn biz in 1991 right out of college on the East Coast. My first real movie was shot in 1993 on Beta SP- Strap-On Sally- and was a huge success on VHS and launched a twenty-two volume series and multiple spinoffs. Now sixteen years later, a lot has changed, with high-definition video, non-linear editing, DVDs, and the internet.

[LiveDose]

Since '97.

Wow, I guess that makes 10. Go me!

[Profits of Doom]

Sixteen years for me. Got in the porn biz in 1991 right out of college on the East Coast. My first real movie was shot in 1993 on Beta SP- Strap-On Sally- and was a huge success on VHS and launched a twenty-two volume series and multiple spinoffs. Now sixteen years later, a lot has changed, with high-definition video, non-linear editing, DVDs, and the internet.

I started running adult bookstores back in '95, and I remember the Strap-On Sally series very well. We used to get at least a few copies of the various volumes each week in our reorders

[Damian_Maxcash]

It will be 10 years around July - I think my first check was from some Canadian AVS - but it would have been closely followed by UGAS.

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

<--10+ years

Here a few sites I made back in '99 using Cyberage.
http://www.sexycyberwebsites.com/teens/
http://www.sexycyberwebsites.com/ashley

Nice, crazy to think we were the first to offer free hosting for adult.

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

It will be 10 years around July - I think my first check was from some Canadian AVS - but it would have been closely followed by UGAS.

Nice, UGAS has become bigger and better. Congrats on the decade.

[chaze]

We are going on 12 years give or take a few months.
From AVS/AEN to Private label credit cards and everything else.

Post away if you have been in this biz for over a decade?

So what did you do before you started?

I got fired actually for being late too much. That was '98

[gecko]

I am around there

[venus]

10 yrs running the same site under the same domain without any downtime.
never been an affiliate, never worked for any other site, never modeled for any other site.... It don't get much better then this....

V

[CuriousToyBoy]

Been in and out of the sex industry since I was 16 years old.

See my Ambush Interview for the gory details.

That makes 23 years, give or take.

Internet now going on 8 years.

2c

[abyss_al]

<--- noob

[quiet]

late 96, and now i'm done for the most part.

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

So what did you do before you started?

I got fired actually for being late too much. That was '98

Long story but just about everything you can imagine. From working at a tire shop, bathtub refinishing, construction, handyman. You name it, my partner and I tried it.

Started in 95 but didn't make a penny till around 97, then everything we made we put back in the biz. Long 12 years but we love what we do.

[Damian_Maxcash]

Nice, UGAS has become bigger and better. Congrats on the decade.

That got me thinking - the first check was from 'RealAVS' - talk about a blast from the past.

I remember getting my first sale and doing the math - I was going to be a millionaire within 6 months based on that $5.00

I never was good at math.......

[HarlotCash Dyker]

Opened my first site in 95 -

[EscortBiz]

just about started in phone sex

[MaxCandy]

Funny how Adult Net is an old industry now, congrats to all us old timers ;)

[jscott]

Today is my 10th year fucking around with adult websites, at 1st it was "free domain" content that I promoted, then shaped into an actual job/business with all legal stuff :

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

Today is my 10th year fucking around with adult websites, at 1st it was "free domain" content that I promoted, then shaped into an actual job/business with all legal stuff :

Nice, congratulations.

[themonk]

nice sites

[Wizzo]

I'm a member of that club...

[Shok]

I went full time April 1997
So Im almost there

[TurboAngel]

Not me but Webair has been around for 10 years.

[tranza]

10 years ago I was 14 years old.

[SykkBoy]

I'll be a member of the 10 year club in September of this year

[UniversalPassLorence]

Wow, how time passes by.

Started in 96

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

Wow, how time passes by.

Started in 96

No Shit, tell me about it.

[Jakke PNG]

I'm here for around 11th year or so...and no, I'm still not driving a lambo like some of you fuckers who actually had a clue pre-2000 or so.

[FuqALot]

joined yesterday.. where do i submit my galleries ?

[cpt. insaino]

wicked.
bump for you

[Yngwie]

I'm a member of that club, but I still suck at this point lol

[Rand]

10 Years of Billing for the Adult Industry.

What a long strange trip it's been.

[Yngwie]

10 Years of Billing for the Adult Industry.

What a long strange trip it's been.

the rest of the trip will get even more strange.

[scoreman]

Here's to another decade folks....

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

Here's to another decade folks....

Great Attitude.

[anne]

I am almost 10 years it was 98 for me. I started on cam and then went to my own amateur site and affliliate program. Since 2001 (in conjuction with a few partners) I own and operate Moocash.com the affliate program for Tricams.com

[Evil Chris]

yes I have been