Memories

wnc · 05-28-2007, 09:17 PM

I am one that does not keep a diary. Being 48 years old, I would have liked to have read my thoughts in certain key periods, now many years ago.

But in a recently opened box I found one piece of paper with many detailed listed dates.

I was first online with two Gay BBS in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1994. The GTs (Get Togethers), when the BBS owners got to drink free bringing in member traffic to a bar on an off-night was quite revealing. In those days, it was not geeks but extremely good looking men that happened to be connected to the new tech - BBS.

I opened my first attempt at a free Gay site, using one of those Gay BBS hosts, with the 10 incoming dial-up connections. The BBS owner had a paid membership area at that time, the content being served via a tower with CD players. My site, and one other, both overwhelmed him and he asked us to depart.

Back then, I was fully free with no advertising. Hindsight - yes I was exposing copyrighted images without permission.

One of my rich BBS friends considered investing in me, but he was not pleased with my lack of details with the business plan I presented. All was new - not possible to get historic details - was all just simple expectations.

I saw how popular I was, so after limited research, I contracted with a host in Virginia, the same as HunkHunter used at that particular time.

After two weeks, I got a telephone call from Virginia that my first two week charge are over $180. I played the acceptable 1996 versus of "OH MY... what have I done". The site was closed, via my request, with no additional charges.

The BBS that had first hosted me, a good friend, Ed Bush - Long story short his net worth as investor and a voice in the company known as IBILL, was silenced via forced retirement years later. He told me he got 10k a month doing nothing and he was in his late 20s (and this was over ten+ years ago).

Most know now what happened to the infamous company IBILL. I am not sure, but I suspect Aids eventaully took Ed Bush.

Via my age, I have indeed learned much.

What is your history?

gaybucks_skyler · 05-29-2007, 01:44 AM

This has nothing to do with the industry at all, but reading this has reminded me of something that happened to me recently that is very similar.

I recently got rid of my apartment and put my entire life in storage… I am planning on heading west soon, so I am staying with my parents temporarily. My mother asked me to clean out my old room before I leave because they want to put the house up for sale soon…. Well I was going through old shoes boxes and found some pieces of paper with significant dates….. It was a piece of paper that had the date and time I lost my virginity, the date I came out, etc. It was all significant dates and it was definitely a trip down memory lane…

Just thought I would share…. LOL

TTYL, Sky

**SPACE GLIDER** · 05-29-2007, 03:51 AM

That's cool. Whenever I clean out stuff all I usually find is like library books that should have been returned to the library back in the 80's an stuff

**TropixxxStudios** · 05-29-2007, 01:09 PM

After my parents divorce (1996) I had to go back to their place and finally clean out my old bedroom that I had not occupied since 1987. In the back of the closet, in a box with all my old LP's, etc. I found my 2nd grade lunch box.

It had my last name, as well as "Mrs. Jennings, Grade 2" on it in black marker.

It was my old Star Wars Lunch box.

Inside it were assorted papers from my last day of school, the old type...with the purple ink they used to print in the school office...not xerox copies. Also, there were remains of whatever the fuck I had for lunch that day...could not tell what it was.

I must have tossed it into the closet at some point and forgotten about it.

I don't remember much about those years...but I remember hitting Eric Weedin over the head with my lunch box one day on the way home...and sure enough...the dent was still there.

Eric is now my insurance agent.

I make porn.

Sometimes I still want to hit him over the head with a lunchbox.

Somethings never change.