What were you doing 10 years ago?
 

It suddenly hit me.. 10 years ago was a year 1997. I think its when Google started. I heard it was possible to spam Infoseek to get like 30000 hits to your pages with banners and make zillions of money with like 1:30 conversions..

What were you doing during the beginning of Gold Rush?

wasted my time working in a greenhouse. Saw the light in 1998 and went to university, saw an even brighter light in 1999 when I started in porn and became a drop out lol

nothing... :( wasting precious time with partying, drinking and having fun...
If i only started then... if....

I was in grade 5... looking for naked pamela anderson pictures

hmm think that was the year when we switched from BBS to inet

In 97 I was already 2 years online running paysites, from switching over from running an adult BBS system

I remember it well. That was the year I was released from the insane asylum.

Was just getting my start in the online porn industry.
The work was way harder to me. Just down loading or uploading took like forever. I don't know how I got anything done.

cool another BBS guy :)

those were times, shitload of cables pcs and modems and premium lines making mad money

I ran a BBS back then too... too bad I hadn't hit the gold yet.

I wish I had a pic of my room then, it was a student room PACKED with modemshit, I even started half duplex my fellow students got insane when at 3am the phone rang and I had to push the horn in the modem but hey you gotta work for your money :)

was in HS

My wife and I just started swinging, and we were running around partying like rock stars getting laid every weekend...lol

i was in HS, figuring out what yahoo was . ..dayamm

Shootin' porn, male stripping, pro wrestling, and of course playing my guitar in my band. Same shit I do now! :)

pls hit me up icq or mail got something important thanks

was in HS
online porn industry was in '99

I was in high school getting harrassed by this kid who got all obsessed with me. It was a bad way to start off the new school year :(

Building the industry as we know it today...

I was just starting secondary school and I was a big ol' geek :) I don't think i'd even discovered the internet at that point!

doing whatever every other 12 year old kid did...

I was a headhunter for the gaming industry.

30000 hits HAHHAHA :DDDDDDDDD you must be kidding

I don't remember exactly when I was doing doorways for altavista, but it was like 97-98 and I was getting 30000 hits but per hour :)

I had just started really using the internet in '97. Mostly chatting on Yahoo.

Oddly enough I was exposed to internet porn around the same time. I remember stumbling upon a site for "spermburpers" or some crap. A girl drowning in semen, with cocks all around her face...

Busting my ass for the man,like I'm still doing today :(

you really have no idea how long way I have made during these years, from innovative seo through new technology company owner to some more serious projects now, this is really unbelievable when I think about it. When I was starting I would never think it will go that far with 'this Internet' :)

dating my wife . in college

I was playing football at the local team 10 years ago :)

Mind your own business you nosy bastard.

I was driving a shuttle van for the airport.

i was in the army

10 years ago? LMAO....u sure u want to know? i was in 4th grade....pretty sure that was the year the spice girls came out....and i was introduced to the mini skirt....soo i guess sexylette.com owes those bitches a shout out.....

I was 14 years old, did what most 14 year old's did I guess, 2 years later I was fooling adult webmaster programs that I was 18 so I could promote them :D

i was selling dentist equipment for Siemens

Great story...:1orglaugh

I think I was still drunk from last night..hence, I would be 21..

going through puberty

I was 12......

Yeah guess i was raving as well!!!!!!

I was going to college and running a cyberage site. Nice!

Didn't even have a computer then and I was still in school..

Look at me now! :D

Designing, working for GXBill, worked with 69gs, ran a bunch of sites, etc etc...Learn alot in a couple years

Drinking...

:Oh crap

I was running a used record store, getting ready for a divorce. Fun fun fun!

In 1997 I was running a fledging business on borrowed time. It was so bad that I probably would have had more cash if I'd gone on welfare. It was my first business so I made the classic mistake of not wanting to give up my baby, rather than realising it was a lost cause which was better off shut down. (Eventually I saw the light... but it was a few years later!!!)

Incidentally, falling into adult allowed me to repay all of the debts from that business in a timely manner. :Graucho

In high school smoking weed and slacking off :thumbsup

at this time in 1997 i had just started my freshman year at college. :( blah.

Haha I misss the parties!!

This month I shall be partyin LA though, gotta go!

I was in high school, blowing mad weed smoke and playing my drums. Fucking stoners.

Are people ussually 8 or so when they are in the fourth grade? I totally forget.

As for then I was shutting down my BBS for the most part and moving online. Move would not be complete for awhile though as I was first pre occupied with moving my BBS online and then setting it up as a portal/isp. That got Fubar real quick after a delay with MCI and a T1 line that never arrived and was sent to a brand new ISP litterally across the street from me after I had paid for it and waited months for installation.