remember when ...
 

The nice thing about this biz is that things change so fast that anyone around for more than a couple of years is an ole timer with fond memories of the "way things were."

I'm a real part timer, but started long ago with a gallery on geocities and then a site on The Globe. And I remember when ..

I got personal replies from Al4A when I submitted, and an apology and explanation when they wouldn't post a geocities gallery http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

And there were only about 10 TGPs at most and I thought there wasn't any point in staring another one because that business niche had obviously already been filled beyond capacity http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif (I never claimed to be smart)

And "The Mighty Adult Buffet Family" was the biggest thing around -- and worth submitting to http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

And you could get a Yahoo listing fairly easily(damn it all, I only got one that I still have -- STUPID)

And the top paying click-through (20 cents a pop) was CyberThrill Casino. Man I thought I'd make a lot of money with them http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

But now I'm jest an ole timer with my memories to sustain me through these long low conversion nights. Things sure have changed.

heheh.. I remember being 14 and finding about the xpics things.. Wow. Talk about motivation to lean a programming language!

Keep in mind, those were my young and stupid(er) days. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif But I walked off with like $50/week.. BIG MONEY for a 14 year old!

-Phil

Oh yeah -- one more that I just thought of while checking my cyberage stats --

I remember when AdultCheck had fewer than 10,000 sites and I thought about making some AVS sites but then thought -- Nah -- must be too late to make any money that way, because the AVS business is obviously overdone already http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

All true incidentally.

Hmm. I guess.

I worked briefly (6 weeks) for XPics in webmaster relations (until I wised up), and almost everyone was making at least several hundred dollars a week. Quite a few were making over $1K!

For a while, XPics was just about the only game in town if you knew almost nothing about webmastering.


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Producer of truly original teen/young woman-oriented adult content at Wonders of the Unseen World

The good ol' days, don't ya just love em'.
Can't remember the first freehost I used but I had 3MB of webspace, I used to run 2 galleries linked together as a site with about 5 recips on each gallery and update each page twice a week (the days when you could resubmit the same url over and over again..) and it ran along at about 10K per day which I thought was a big WOW.
Made a few bucks off swedenteens and got screwed by xpics for a few more.
Then two things happened, I found AP as a sponsor and made some $$'s then one day I started getting 6K per hour on one of the pages (the server lasted about six hours before it blew a fuse),you got it, the big yellow guy had picked up one of my galleries and from that day forward never updated a gallery again.

J