Originally posted by MiamiB
The olden days...very easy...easy money.

Register a name...throw in some pics and watch the signups!!

Those WERE the days...
Oh yes those were the days! I made more money with two free sites, per month, than I made at my previous job.

The trade show were enormous. With so much money flowing it wasn't funny. Huge displays, free drinks, fast business and all we right with the world.

this was when our host, who had never hosted adult, let us know they didn't have the bandwidth to accomodate us. so i had to find a host, and i did. they charged $100 for 33 gig, which was actually reasonable back then. so we got moved in, and turned to creating more free sites.
Damn I remember that! And I remember the birth of Nat Net, when Sweet T bought the company he was working with with everything he could get his hands on. I kinda remember him talking about asking AMEX to let him make a big cash advance.

I ran a click thru program that was one of the few with gay sites and could pay out 20 cents per click without shaving.

I put up 10 free sites and in less than 6 months made enough to replenish all of the 401K money I took when I left Wall Street.

I remember when a new niche (gay or straight) would make really good money on any type of traffic.

I remember when UGAS and Gay.com launched. And I confused UGAS with a company called UAS and thought they were trying to fuck with me after the told me they weren't going to do a gay ad program LOL

I remember Grimm launching what seemed to be the first free host, if not one of the first.

But the one thing I truly remember, only feel it here now a days, is the sense of cooperation between webmasters - which is what pushed me into this business to begin with.

My best,
Gary-Alan