I started before 2000 but unfortunately didn't have much success (I started free sites as a hobby and never learned much about marketing them at the time). Once the government killed online gambling in 05 I moved back into adult, this time with much success.

Does masturbating for the first time count as being in the business?

Masturbating is a gateway drug ;)

Oct 1996 but didn't find was it Ynot till fall 97 (it wasn't Ynot, it was before Ynot, what the hell was that first board called? Maybe it was Ynot.

anyhoo..

Hey lots of great old guys and girls. It's Catman. How goes it? I'm too old to be still doing this. haha

Why didn't I reg Catman at GFY in Oct 2002?

It was time to give the name a rest for a while. Now I wish I would of.., as you can see my days of posting have been few and far between since the 90's when all I did is post instead of spam the engines which is what I SHOULD of been doing. DaaaayyyyyMMM.

I'm still just a lone wolf affiliate. No paysites. One man band.

Ah man I could write a lot (as you know) but I'll just say hope everyone in this thread is well and doing good.
: )

Oh BTW b4 someone mentions it, yes it was 10 years ago, it was Feb 14, 1999 when Dean, Serge. and an anon sponsor sent me $52,000 for winning THE best contest EVER sponsored by Playgal for $50,000. Serge and the anon each sent me a grand just to join the fun. Yes I know the real story. I guess that makes ME the ultimate poster for profit doesn't it. : )

Ahh them were the times. The money was easy. I'd go back in an instant.

Oh oh I guess this means I'm back.

Lets show em what real piss is. The puke asses around here. haha : )

(Inside old school joke)

I love you all. Thanks for carving out the woods before me. I just followed you all for the most part and still do. ; )

Catman

and 12 year later you're still broke as a joke

lol

Right on.

I missed out on the great years. Started in late 2002.

i start right now...

On the interwebs in May 1999... :) Having my 10 year anniversary this month! :thumbsup

:drinkup:GFYBand

But with BBS's started in 1992.

Now go back to work! :321GFY

1996 here and still very much alive and loving life..:winkwink:


:pimp

huh?

why would you walk away from the easiest job in the world when there's still millions more to be made?

I can't code, I can't design, I can't sell, hell, I can't even spell. yet here I am. :winkwink:

I was just learning how to build sites in 99. Didn't go full time till about 2001.

*raises hand

I wish I did!

It was good fun hanging out with the XPics folks at IA2000. The money was flowing like water.

Catman!!!

Holy shit!!!

Glad to see you are still alive and well. :)

I've started in January 2000 :pimp

Nice thread we got going. I'm sure even more players will tune in :)

*Stephen slips into the back of the room, looks around, waves and sez, "yeah, I'm still here" :)

Indeed. There are still quite a few old schoolers missing. :)

Hey Catman,

Long time no see :)

I remember the day you won that cash on ynot - I was watching the threads too see who won...

Hope all is well

Todd

Ditto what Nick said, Catman!!! This thread is really bringing out the old guard. :upsidedow

**yawn**

I have been a grunt in the biz since 1996 :Oh crap

I started in August of 1997

You beat me to it!

Cat, was reading through p 3 of the thread and thought of you, then you magically appeared -- wow --

nick@ -- too many kids for you to stop working ;)

I was started between August and September 1999. My 10 year anniv. is comming

in 2000 launched

http://web.archive.org/web/200010182...yverycute.com/

Nick, Todd, Peaches, Kimmykim,

Like a cat you once fed, you'll never get rid of me. : ))

GREAT to see everyone man. Hope you all are doing well.

Ya know I'm having a great sign up day. (for a fricken change) including two sups from a sponsor who never got any before.

Things still sell and are selling better and better as time goes on and the economy improves.

or.. maybe it's just that, you bring these old school guys and girls around to a central location and money just appears. : )

Catman

must be your good looks :winkwink:

Full time in adult since 1996

started somewhere around 2000-2001 with mgp, hosting short crappy softcore clips on free ISP accounts LOL

Thanks much :) My mom was kind of excited to be able to buy something to do with me in the grocery store checkout line.

October 1998 is when I started:2 cents:

those who satrted back then should have loads of $$$ in the bank. If not - thats their own fault

Well, lets see. ThaiChix.com has been up and running since 97 and I started out a couple of years before that. Wow, I am a veteran :-)

*hugs and kisses*

Blast from the past.

Welcome back fellow lone wolf affiliate. :thumbsup

Hey CD! Great to be back. Ya know it's not that much diff today for the affiliate. Same basic deal. Find guys who sell and promote them. Lots of work tho and prob never make the $$$ a good paysite makes. But the lifestyle is fantastic. No other biz has less hassle.

We "lone wolf affiliates" from the 90's with no paysites usually have a couple good domains.

True story I gotta tell.. July 4, 2003 I was watching E! and seen this girl Paris Hilton. hmm she looked pretty fine. I go to whois. The only domains registered to her were parishilton.com and maybe .net

I think what the hell. I buy a couple including parishiltonnude.com

Guy almost immediately emails me and buys it for $1000. It has since been resold I think. I missed the parishiltonvideo domains though. Didn't know. Could of had any of em though. Shows ya, anytime, money may be just waiting for you.

"I shiver but I love this game"
Alice Cooper

98 for me, 99 the main site.

we had an adult toy/8mm movie mailorder biz in 1973-79, plus i owned 50% of an adult arcade/theater until some guy invented the VCR...as for the internet, i had a few sites in late 97 and went fulltime in June 1998...

I was in mainstream back in 1997, then went into porn when the dot come bubble burst.... POP!

I have seen a number of threads like this before, but this one seems to be bringing them out:thumbsup:thumbsup

You mean like if we invested in the stock market or real estate with the money we made "back then" like our accountants told us too? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Yeah, the bank is just full of our money. Oh I forgot the banks had to be bailed out too.
You might want to read the paper every once in a while...the economy is in the shitter. :(

I built my first porn site July 1998 and went full time by December.

Been doing this since 97.

I was saying that anybody half serious made decent bank from adult back then.
How they doubled, tripled or lost their money is another story

:2 cents: :2 cents:

<rant>
And what really pisses me off are those TV commercials (I think they're for Edward Jones) - with the "financial advisor" telling some guy "Well, John, my experience in markets like this is that....."

And I scream at the TV, "Shut the fuck up!! Unless you're at least 80, you've never even *lived* through a market like this, let alone invested in it, you asshole!"

And then there are the ones that say "Who ever said the road to retirement was going to be an expressway?"

And I scream at the TV "YOU did, you fucking assholes!!!"

</rant>

lol... I remember Catman from ynot parachat. I was known as SpunkyMonkey back then.

remember the blue screen of death? good times, good times...

Worked for a company processing adult online 98-99. I was then moved over to their offshoot start-up mainstream company for a year until the money dried up on the software development.
Found my way into online adult and Traffic Cash Gold in 2001 and have made it my home ever since.

SpunkyMonkey! The biggest problem was we were all using 486 computers, Win 3.1 and good ole 28.8. it took forever and a day to build a banner farm!