Depth of Experience in Online Adult Biz

[Mike AI]

I do not remember the exact day I got into the adult business. I remember getting a cashier's check back in early 1996 to put up a banner. I think this is the first time I actually got paid.

I was looking at my older domains, the oldest one is registered 04-09-96 though I had sites up before that were off of my Netcom dialup account and my local ISP Acadiacom.

So I guess I am celebrating my 7th year in the adult internet business.

Started in my moms house while still in lawschool on a Pentium I 90 Mhz with 32 megs of RAM ( I was rocking) and a 3 pass color scanner which I bought on my Discover card. ( it would take 10 minutes to scan one photo!!)

How times have changed....


Serge we "met" through e-mail in 96 sometime I am sure....

[Almighty Colin]

My first site was XXX Reviews. I entered at the time of the rising "you need to buy your content, not steal it" atmosphere. Everyone was trying to educate newbies not to scan playboy content and put it on your site. I listened and started a review site because I couldn't afford to buy content yet and also because I thought it would be a good way to meet webmasters. I was right about that. I remember JB and JoeE asking me for a site review.

I had a $50/month host. Serge gave me free hosting for my third freesite.

My first sponsors were CyberErotica @ 2.5 cents/click [?] and ... Amateur Hardcore @ 2 cents per click [?]

Everyone thought it was a big deal when CE rose to 3 cents per click. They had a picture of 3 pennies on their website.



Last edited by Colin at Apr 16 2003, 01:13 PM

[Forest]

My first day was aug 31 1998

first day of broadcast on a live site with my first girl

didnt have enough money for advertising then for girls (my entire 1500.00 budget went to the computer).
So i printed up fliers and put them on telephone poles around the county fair.
Borrowed a video camera from a buddy
started uploading on a 56k modem LOL

Did my first hardcore show 3 days later.

god bless the internet
:wnw:



Last edited by Forest at Apr 16 2003, 10:20 AM

[OldJeff]

July 1997 - I was out of work and Mark Tiarra a friend for several years before built a free site for me and sent me out on a link trading quest.

I made $ 200 the first week and decided this was the business for me.

Probably the first person I met - Outside of friends from before I was in the business was Serge, along With Meatman, Dragonking and DJ at the birth of the Condom Project. It was also the night I nearly saw all of them get killed when a guy ran a red light doing at minumum 80 and drove right between the 2 limos.

[voodooman]

I think I arrived late 98 and CE was also my first sponsor.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 16 2003, 01:04 PM
I do not remember the exact day I got into the adult business. I remember getting a cashier's check back in early 1996 to put up a banner. I think this is the first time I actually got paid.

I was looking at my older domains, the oldest one is registered 04-09-96 though I had sites up before that were off of my Netcom dialup account and my local ISP Acadiacom.

So I guess I am celebrating my 7th year in the adult internet business.

Started in my moms house while still in lawschool on a Pentium I 90 Mhz with 32 megs of RAM ( I was rocking) and a 3 pass color scanner which I bought on my Discover card. ( it would take 10 minutes to scan one photo!!)

How times have changed....


Serge we "met" through e-mail in 96 sometime I am sure....
yes, we did, you were much cuter those days...
you were blond and had a nice set of boobs!!!
;-000

April 96 we met,
i started on the net oct 95, first aduly site jan 8th 96

[dantheman]

started in 97 with a cam site with 2 canadian girls, did pretty good for a while till they became very hard to work with:/ then got slammed by dmr pretty good:((((( after that came to simplecom and pretty much been here since trying to grow a baby into a gaint :cdance:

[Vick]

Cloud 9 Entertainment.com
Record created on 07-11-1997

I've told the story about 500 times (which is 498 too many except for Edd and Mutt who have a Claudia thing he he he)

First met Serge by pissing with him on Ynot as a newbie idiot in 1997 or 1998 - then had the pleasure to meet Serge in person at the 1998 Seacasus Cybernet Expo Show, I think that was at the end of May

First met MikeAI, Billy and crew at IA2000 January 1998 I think

Just about everyone who was in the business was at that show and met including the possum flash eating XXXPhoto and the where is he now poster kid Brett Wright

[Nickatilynx]

1996 for me.Built ilynx ("borrowed" content)

Got tons of hits made $22 first mth.Bandwidth at demon co was UKP 6000.00!!! Bad things.

Read YNOT for ages before getting the nerve to post.

Read Colin's build an empire.

Decided to treat surfers as "prey" instead of customers.

Xpics offered me exclusive.FM and Dean advised me to tell them to go forth and multiply.FM and Dean tutored me. yadayada Serge yadada Scotty yadayada CONDOM (betcha you don't remeber what those letters mean)then Serge bet push or sammi that he could create a megaclickbroker when he retired yadadada ........

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Apr 16 2003, 01:33 PM
Read Colin's build an empire.


B) One never tires of hearing about such things. :rolleyes:

[kmanrox]

Sometime in the beginning of 1996 I was posting sites to PK that I had hosted on AOL and compuserve, every time I got a listing they pulled the plug on my account. I was pissed. I didnt even have adverts on the sites, I got off watching the counter go up 20 notches on every reload... I teamed up with BoBX, he had a server, we put my ideas and his programming together and got started.... My first adverts was Hadhazy's Amateur Hardcore then FM's program... I made $40 the first week and was stoked. I was a poor US Marine and was arguing over the $20 fee for the Internet with my wife at the time....

If I knew then what I knew now, jesus.... I'd give anything for those fruitful days back once again....

Watching Serge piss with everyone was great too =)

[sextoyking]

Damm this is the old timers board:)

I think I am on my 9th year now in the online scene, before that adult bbs's and stuff.

Serge thanks for that ad trade so many years ago!!!

I love the net, this community and everyone involved.


peace

todd

[*KK*]

late 96- early 97 with the web design and furniture business... didn't do badly but realized in 99 that it was easier to sell porn online than sofas lol...

Thanks to that devil @ilynx and Tommy I had people nice enough to pick up the phone and scream at me that sites shouldn't be pretty, I wasn't making the surfer click and that without those clicks I couldn't make sales...

I'll never forget Tommy showing me one set of his Maxcash stats about halfway into the sales period. I wised up pretty quick and started trying to decipher just what that NY accent was saying at the top of his lungs ;)

[Anthony]

1999 here. As bad as things got lately, I wouldn't be here without advice from Nick in my first month of webmastering.

[Mike AI]

Nick it took you time to get nerve to post? What about 10 minutes? :D

Colin what was the year you got started?

[Nickatilynx]

Mike,

10 mins in the internet IS an age!!! ;)

Ant,
My pleasure and you learnt well.
(returning to feud mode) ;)

[Peaches]

I started in the adult biz back in 1993 being the "right hand man" for the owner of one of the largest 900 providers. Ed Kinsley started the first internet site that I was aware of and our rooms in Canada provided the models for his cam. That was 1995?

When the feds arrived, I left there and R_n, who had been one of our customers, offered me a job doing the customer service for CE. This was November 1996. I also sifted pictures pulled from newsgroups for the guy that started Mr. Cash (who's an old friend of mine from WAY back).

In July 1997 I bought my first domain (had to look it up :awinky: ), southernsluts.com I can't find the original stuff for it, but Sharky did my header for me and Sammi was one of the first people I traded links with. And of course, when Serge did his "link" experiment I linked with Natasha and Masha, or whatever their names were :biglaugh:

I stopped working for CE around the summer of 1998, did some sales work for Mr. Cash for a bit (I was Candy Graham if anyone remembers), and then just did my freesites.

I fondly remember the days when you could get a listing in AltaVista in a few minutes, ditto with Yahoo, and a listing in DMOZ ended up in AOL and brought in $$$$ [sigh] The memories. :okthumb:

[ulfie]

I started in 1997, my company sent me to a conference and I learned how to do HTML in about an hour. I came home and started a golf site on geocities that got about 20 hits a month. After surfing around and seeing how many hit's adult sites were getting I decided to try that. My first adult site was hosted on porncity and it was all "borrowed" content. I had 2 sponsers whose names escape me now since they no longer exist but one was per click and the other was a progressive signup program. I couldn't believe it the day a check for $2000+ showed up, I hauled ass to the bank to deposit it just to make sure it would clear. (Those were the days) My site ended up in the top ten at xxxcounter for a long time until I got some emails from content providers that were more than a little upset with me borrowing their content. That's when I finally learned content wasn't "public domain". ;) Since then I've done about anything you can think of, tgp, tgp2, link lists, se's, email, etc. Moving into paysites now, hopefully it will work out, I don't want to go back to a day job ever again.

[VooMan]

Ah, the good old days...

My first site went up in March of 1997. I played the TGP's back when it wasn't so popular and learned how to make some money from it. Then I hit the Yahoo motherload with some good keyword loaded domains. I had vowed never to work for anyone again, but when I met SweetT in May of 1999 we really hit it off and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. If I had it to do all over again I would have hit the Yahoo motherload a lot sooner, but I would still be here. I have never worked for a better company. :)

My most memorable moment though, had to be when I was on the phone with my accountant. I had my prior years tax return on my desk (from when I worked in the cabinet shop) and sitting next to it was a bank deposit. I laughed my ass off when I noticed the deposit was bigger than last year's gross income. hahaha

Man, has it really been six years already? Whoa...

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Peaches@Apr 16 2003, 04:29 PM


I stopped working for CE around the summer of 1998, did some sales work for Mr. Cash for a bit (I was Candy Graham if anyone remembers), and then just did my freesites.


6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????

Colin,
wanna calculate the probabilitires???
;-)))

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 06:11 PM

6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????

Colin,
wanna calculate the probabilitires???
;-)))[/quote]
Hehe, actually I was talking about the only non-jewish partner they had, but I love Jeff too! :inlove: And all his many relatives, lol!

Jeff lives in my state and I only run into him in Florida, Vegas, etc. :o

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Peaches@Apr 16 2003, 05:16 PM

6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????

Colin,
wanna calculate the probabilitires???
;-)))
Hehe, actually I was talking about the only non-jewish partner they had, but I love Jeff too! :inlove: And all his many relatives, lol!

Jeff lives in my state and I only run into him in Florida, Vegas, etc. :o[/quote]
sorry, i didn't know and it ain't my business to comment on yet another partnership break up
;--00

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by OldJeff@Apr 16 2003, 01:20 PM
July 1997 - I was out of work and Mark Tiarra a friend for several years before built a free site for me and sent me out on a link trading quest.

I made $ 200 the first week and decided this was the business for me.

Probably the first person I met - Outside of friends from before I was in the business was Serge, along With Meatman, Dragonking and DJ at the birth of the Condom Project. It was also the night I nearly saw all of them get killed when a guy ran a red light doing at minumum 80 and drove right between the 2 limos.
old jeff...u were there????????

holy shit!

I didn't expect anybody to be alive who saurvived that night when limo driver came in hios pants listening to the modfel talk
;-)))

[$tanDaMan]

November 16, 1996 Started my first site :)
Met with Serge in April with him in his station wagon, and a fine meal that the BurgerKing restuarant.... Getting feet wet so to speak...
Had a paysite with Serge :) for about 2 years, was in top 10 in world with my xxxparadise.
2000 Started Like Whoa with my partner...been rocking there since!

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by $tanDaMan@Apr 16 2003, 06:39 PM
November 16, 1996 Started my first site :)
Met with Serge in April with him in his station wagon, and a fine meal that the BurgerKing restuarant.... Getting feet wet so to speak...
Had a paysite with Serge :) for about 2 years, was in top 10 in world with my xxxparadise.
2000 Started Like Whoa with my partner...been rocking there since!
oh fuck,
I am NOT a Father Christmas of this business!!!

I din NOT set everybody on their evil ways!!!!

please give some credit to Al Gore for Christ sake!!!!

[cj]

Mid 97 I was working for an isp as a web designer then in April 98 started working for the general at Intergal as a web designer
5th anniversary in porn this month!

launched purve in july 98, met serge in jan 99 at peter lugers (sp?) steak restaurant in new york with terry from tropix hosting and greg, went to the pure hardcore office in jersey where dave referred to me continually as the secretary/girlfriend ... then went straight to the january show at the monte carlo, met webfather and a few others.

i used to read ynot every day, and posted occasionally.

most of the industry went over my head for the first year.

Now I think about the day where i made the decision to work for the general instead of for another company that had offered me a position setting up the backends and designing of real estate websites and think 'thank god i chose the porn' ;-))))

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by cj@Apr 16 2003, 07:06 PM
met serge in jan 99 at peter lugers (sp?) steak restaurant in new york
i was sure u just want me 4 my body!!!
;-))))

[Anthony]

Since we are all tieing Serge to starting... I remember reading Serge moved down to Boca. I emailed him asking if I could attend that big meeting of players in Boca. At that time, I had a fledgling CJ and didn't think I qualified. Well, the party never came through, but Serge said, "Let's have dinner".

My dog pissed on his carpert, and the rest is history!

[Winetalk.com]

yeap, good, 'ole days.....
and good 'ole dogs
;-)))

BigA,
will u come to FL this year??

I missed u mano...

[cj]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 16 2003, 07:20 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 16 2003, 07:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--cj@Apr 16 2003, 07:06 PM
met serge in jan 99 at peter lugers (sp?) steak restaurant in new york
i was sure u just want me 4 my body!!!
;-))))[/b][/quote]
no i wanted you to tell me how to get rich


:biglaugh:

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by cj+Apr 16 2003, 07:25 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cj @ Apr 16 2003, 07:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 07:20 PM
<!--QuoteBegin--cj@Apr 16 2003, 07:06 PM
met serge in jan 99 at peter lugers (sp?) steak restaurant in new york
i was sure u just want me 4 my body!!!
;-))))
no i wanted you to tell me how to get rich


:biglaugh:[/b][/quote]
and i did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i still believe that my advice to gety laid with greg and marry him was a good one!!!!
;-)))

[cj]

:barfon:

i didn't want to be rich that badly

still working on it ... slavik is more my type ;-)))

[Anthony]

CJ,

As your online Big Brother, I would have to meet this Slavik fella.

I just can't let any ole webmaster get hitched to my Kin.

Does he like hunting?

[Anthony]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 04:24 PM
yeap, good, 'ole days.....
and good 'ole dogs
;-)))

BigA,
will u come to FL this year??

I missed u mano...
Serge,

Good news, I will be in Florida in August for show come Hell or Highwater.

Can I stay with you? I'm bringing Kristen too!

[cj]

LOL

see why i never have a boyfriend?!
he has to pass too many big brother/surrogate father tests!!!!!



me off to the spa for a few hours
:agrin:

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Anthony+Apr 16 2003, 07:37 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Anthony @ Apr 16 2003, 07:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 04:24 PM
yeap, good, 'ole days.....
and good 'ole dogs
;-)))

BigA,
will u come to FL this year??

I missed u mano...
Serge,

Good news, I will be in Florida in August for show come Hell or Highwater.

Can I stay with you? I'm bringing Kristen too![/b][/quote]
u can stay at my place, but i won't be there...
we'll be in europe...

life is to short to spend the august in florida
;-000

[Anthony]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Apr 16 2003, 05:20 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Apr 16 2003, 05:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -Anthony@Apr 16 2003, 07:37 PM
<!--QuoteBegin--Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 04:24 PM
yeap, good, 'ole days.....
and good 'ole dogs
;-)))

BigA,
will u come to FL this year??

I missed u mano...
Serge,

Good news, I will be in Florida in August for show come Hell or Highwater.

Can I stay with you? I'm bringing Kristen too!
u can stay at my place, but i won't be there...
we'll be in europe...

life is to short to spend the august in florida
;-000[/b][/quote]
DOH! Well, gonna have to shoot out in the winter/fall time then!

Wait a minute, did you say I can have run of the house?

WWWOOOOHHHHOOOO!!! Party at Serge's!!!

:rokk:

[Hell Puppy]

Does hocking scanned playboy pics on a dialup BBS count as online adult biz? If so, that puts me back into the 80's. I can remember being dazzled by the way Miss February looked in a grey scale Macpaint format. Before that we were limited to printing the girlies out on the printer using nothing but ASCII characters and then getting way back from the printout at which time all of those characters would make out the shape of a nude babe!

Had a day job that put me on the web VERY early, vintage 1993 when Mosaic was the only game in town and pretty much the only way to get on the web was bring in your own T-1 or frame and run your own servers. My oldest domain has a creation date of 3/24/1993.

Dabbled with putting naked pics on the net for a couple of years using it mostly to feed back to subscriptions on the BBS. In the early days the porn action wasn't on the web, most people had shell accounts via companies like Netcom that they used for email and newsgroups.

FM popped my advertising cherry with FastCash sometime around late 96/early 97. Things took off from there.

First adult trade show would've been InternetExpo/Vegas in 97 or 98, I forget which. It was the one held in the Monte Carlo back when the show still had a heavy 900# influence. I remember that show was the one where the booths were split between two locations in the hotel and a lot of people failed to even notice that there were two halls.

Geez...I'm feeling really old now.

[XXXPhoto]

Originally posted by Vick@Apr 16 2003, 10:27 AM

Just about everyone who was in the business was at that show and met including the possum flash eating XXXPhoto and the where is he now poster kid Brett Wright
Flesh Vick, not flash...lol... and stop flippin guys shit about Claudia, she gives great nakid backrubs PLUS I hear tell she blew Uncle Sam... shall I post a picture?? :awinky:

Fall of 96 was in college and started building sites for hotels and motels in Branson; then whipped out a site that Beth was kind enough to list at the top of PK's listings (AAAAGoodtime 4 A Goodtime)... hehehe

Surfed around whois alot calling folks outta the blue. Hooked up with Bangwang that way in early 97 (and Vick too later that year). Started working at YNOT doing the webmaster resources and folding thousands of fucking tshirts at the conventions... anyone else have ones from the first shows? ...lol

First time I saw Serge was in an elevator in Orlando in fall of 97. One look at him and I jokingly thought that's GOT to be Serge...lol... He might be taking folks out for wine and steaks now, but I'll never forget that IHOP breakfast he treated me to in Daytona... That mean old Russian took and showed me the ocean for the first time (and them red speedos) and it's one of my best memories from shows... lol

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 16 2003, 03:07 PM
Nick it took you time to get nerve to post? What about 10 minutes? :D

Colin what was the year you got started?
I used to think it was '96 but Serge insists it is '97 and I am trying to backdate myself. <_<

I finished school in Dec, '95. Move to Florida in April, '96. Taught high-school for a while. It makes sense it might have been early 1997.

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 05:11 PM
6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????

Colin,
wanna calculate the probabilitires???
;-)))
Pretty fucking low but the odds that you would have at least one story something like this are a lot higher. :)

[Almighty Colin]

In network theory, Serge is what is known as a hub. If you mapped out all the connections between people, Serge would be surrounded by a thicket of connections. I don't think that's an accident. Serge is the Mel Blanc of internet porn.



Last edited by Colin at Apr 17 2003, 05:32 AM

[XXXPhoto]

Colin,

You think Kevin Bacon sits aroung playing 6 Degrees of Serge Birbrair???

:blink:

[art]

It was early 1997 when I started my first site and was shut down by my ISP within two days after Persiankitty listed me. I guess many of us started out that way!

A few weeks later we (myself + two partners) each got one domain and started developing a site to see where it would get us. I was the only one with some success, so eventually we parted ways and I continued by myself.

My first sponsor was CE. There was also some other sponsor, I remember the site had a "medical theme" with nurses (sexclinic or something like that?).

Things started to take off when I became a YNOT member, and moved to my own server with AboveNet.

I have never had lunch or dinner with Serge, although I did meet him once (for a few minutes). :rolleyes:

Greetings,

Art

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by XXXPhoto@Apr 17 2003, 05:42 AM
Colin,

You think Kevin Bacon sits aroung playing 6 Degrees of Serge Birbrair???

:blink:
Probably ;-]

Interesting enough, Kevin Bacon isn't especially unusual in his number of connections to other actors. It's just historical accident that his name is married to the "Six Degrees" game.

I think Mel Blanc is listed in more movies than anyone else.

Porn stars are notoriously high on the most-connected list for actors. Ron Jeremy is very high.

FDR had 22,000 names in his appointment book.



Last edited by Colin at Apr 17 2003, 07:36 AM

[slavdogg]

put up my first porn site on tripod.com in Nov 96 after making few bucks on a mainstream site.
got a 6 cent check from IEG,
first domain registered on June 1st, 97




Last edited by slavdogg at Apr 17 2003, 07:48 AM

[Torone]

I first got online in '95...started webmastering (mainstream) in '96; and put up my first porn site (Amazin' Asians) in late '97. Back then, you could only register a domain through Network Solutions and only for 2 years...

[Monk]

Started in Aug/99..... met Serge in June/2006 while I was visiting a retirement home in Boca.


As a gesture of good faith, I offer to spring for a room for CJ and Slavik at the next convention.

[Torone]

Since '97...

[Almighty Colin]

Oh, domains at $70 for two years. And weren't they $100 briefly because of a government tax on them?

We had to buy thousands for search engines. It changed the SE game when prices were dropped to $10-$15 and people were able to start buying 1000 domains for $10,000.

[OldJeff]

"got a 6 cent check from IEG,"


Never sent them a click :D

Gerry had one of their 6 cent checks on his wall - It bounced at the bank :moon:

[Winetalk.com]

jeff, how is ally?

we'll be in nj next week

[OldJeff]

Serge,

She is well thank you.

Odd as it sounds , we will be in Florida next week. Running away for a much needed vacation.

[kmanrox]

heh, just left Seth@IEG's office, I'm sure he'll be flattered people still talk about him ;-)

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by kmanrox@Apr 17 2003, 08:48 AM
heh, just left Seth@IEG's office, I'm sure he'll be flattered people still talk about him ;-)
r u his new driver?
;-000

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by OldJeff@Apr 17 2003, 08:47 AM
Serge,

She is well thank you.

Odd as it sounds , we will be in Florida next week. Running away for a much needed vacation.
once again, we are running away from each other
;-000

[Forest]

Originally posted by Monk@Apr 17 2003, 04:48 AM
Started in Aug/99..... met Serge in June/2006 while I was visiting a retirement home in Boca.


As a gesture of good faith, I offer to spring for a room for CJ and Slavik at the next convention.
and your still a nobody

what a surprise

:unsure:

[Monk]

Forest, stop stalking me!

[Forest]

Originally posted by Monk@Apr 17 2003, 07:03 AM
Forest, stop stalking me!
PLUUEEAASSSEEEEEE

I have much better things to do then to stalk you

like watch paint dry

:awinky:

[Mike AI]

In network theory, Serge is what is known as a hub. If you mapped out all the connections between people, Serge would be surrounded by a thicket of connections. I don't think that's an accident. Serge is the Mel Blanc of internet porn.

HAHA Yeah we should do a 6 degrees of seperation with Serge...

He has been around....

[Mike AI]

put up my first porn site on tripod.com in Nov 96 after making few bucks on a mainstream site.
got a 6 cent check from IEG,
first domain registered on June 1st, 97

Slav you have built up a pretty impressive domain portfolio since then!!

Wish I would had been smart with domains, one of the few mistakes I regret.... I blame Webfather... he was preaching about them, but he was such a dork - who would listen? hahaha Guess who is the dork now!!!

[gigi]

What a kewl thread :)

March 1, '99 for me. I had just quit a job working for the credit bureau as a skip tracer. I was tired of hunting down people to pay their bills...lol.

I was a total chat junkie from '95 'til then. I also had my very own personal geocities site too, made with Netscape Composer. I had no idea there was actual CODE behind the pages I made...hahaha.

I had a 'dancer' friend who asked me to put up a site for her. So, I started researching and after a couple of weeks, realized I could make far more money making my own sites, than a site for her...haha.

I started on a freehost too. Then I finally splurged and bought a few domains and a $25 a month host. I still wasn't making a whole lot of money, but then things turned around when I sold my first domain for $2k. I was estatic!!

I took the money and invested it into more domains, content etc etc. Best thing I ever did.

Worked with snoops for RookieClass for 2 years and then landed my current position with CQ2 and I've never looked back. :)

As for Serge, I didn't meet him until 2001 I believe. Snoops introduced us at one of the shows.

But my meeting with his beautiful wife ladylaw was pretty memorable for me. I was at a show in Vancouver. I was at the hotel wandering around and saw her sitting at a piano in the corner of a room, playing. I had no idea who she was. I walked over and we started talking and then we played a simple duet together...haha.

Low and behold, she is now Serge's wife. :)

I look back now and see how much people's lives have changed in the time I've been doing this. From marriages to having babies and even death.

This biz really isn't as big as it may seem.

[DrGuile]

Celebrating 3 years in June. I kinda feel out of place ;p



you dont really need 6 degrees for Serge, most people would only need 1 or 2 ;p



Last edited by DrGuile at Apr 17 2003, 11:49 AM

[*KK*]

Originally posted by Colin@Apr 17 2003, 04:34 AM
FDR had 22,000 names in his appointment book.
Interesting but not really surprising... how many countries are there and how many people that could be important from each... then you add in the corporations, departments of our own gov't that he might need, I just wonder if he remembered each of their faces lol...

[SweetT]

Readers Digest Version:

--Oct 1 1997 Bought First Domain

--Oct 10 1997 Launched first site (with this fantastic idea that it would be a free site until we got people hooked on it then we would turn it into a pay site)

--Oct 15 1997 Asked PK for a link to my free site :)

--Oct 20 1997 Asked PK again for a link to my free site :unsure:

--Oct 25 1997 Begged PK for a link to my free site :inlove:

--Oct 30 1997 Got a call from my host (Mindspring) that we were pushing 100 times our agreed upon rate and the invoice for the FIRST MONTH was going to be $5,000. PK listed us!!! WOOPEEEEE! :wnw:

--Oct 30 1997 (15 minutes later) Turned on the new Join Pages for the members area!!! (we're in the money....we're in the money :rokk:

--Oct 30 1997 (15 minutes later) Check Stats..... 20 Signups!! :zoinks:

--Oct 30 1997 (15 minutes later) PK terminated us because we changed to a pay site and she never replied to an email since. :o


Now what?


Been trying to answer that question ever since :)



--T


(should give props to MikeAI, though....when things went bust with PK I met Mike and he listed us on AmateurIndex and I swear to you that from that point forward it was like taking candy from a baby.....well, until the great fall of 2002 :)





Last edited by SweetT at Apr 17 2003, 02:42 PM

[SweetT]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 05:11 PM
6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????


Serge...

I think it was June 2000...I was in LA with RB and Fold to do some golfing. We were riding down the interstate in a RENTAL convertible when a HUGE, BLACK, 4X4 SUBURBAN with tinted windows and big Hella Lights and one of those push grills on the front comes rolling up behind us and tailgating us and honking and flashing ALL the lights. I was scared as shit. RB, in typical Brooklyn fashion, begins to cuss and holler and flip birds out the roof at this idiot who is threatening our lives. We came to a stop light at the next exit and the truck slides to stop directly to our left. I duck so that RB will got shot instead of me....when J$tyle$ sticks his head out the window and says "Sup?"

I almost cried :)


Figure the mathematical probablilty of people from THREE separate states driving in a FOURTH state in a RENTAL car and having someone from a FIFTH state roll up on them on the INTERSTATE. (Keep in mind there was no tradeshow, no nothing....we were out there golfing and Jonathon was either interviewing or had just started with CE (driving Ron's Suburban).

--T

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by SweetT@Apr 17 2003, 02:27 PM


Now what?


Been trying to answer that question ever since :)



--T



NOW Lensman is your competition
;-)))

and he has advertising venues and you do not
;-)))))

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.p...threadid=126033 (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=126033)

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by SweetT+Apr 17 2003, 02:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SweetT @ Apr 17 2003, 02:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Serge_Oprano@Apr 16 2003, 05:11 PM
6pm, thursday, route a1a, we slowly go out for dinner and whom do i see in my back side mirror?

jeff from mr cash!

what are the chnces of meeting like that????


Serge...

I think it was June 2000...I was in LA with RB and Fold to do some golfing. We were riding down the interstate in a RENTAL convertible when a HUGE, BLACK, 4X4 SUBURBAN with tinted windows and big Hella Lights and one of those push grills on the front comes rolling up behind us and tailgating us and honking and flashing ALL the lights. I was scared as shit. RB, in typical Brooklyn fashion, begins to cuss and holler and flip birds out the roof at this idiot who is threatening our lives. We came to a stop light at the next exit and the truck slides to stop directly to our left. I duck so that RB will got shot instead of me....when J$tyle$ sticks his head out the window and says "Sup?"

I almost cried :)


Figure the mathematical probablilty of people from THREE separate states driving in a FOURTH state in a RENTAL car and having someone from a FIFTH state roll up on them on the INTERSTATE. (Keep in mind there was no tradeshow, no nothing....we were out there golfing and Jonathon was either interviewing or had just started with CE (driving Ron's Suburban).

--T[/b][/quote]
Holy Shit!!!!

Porners are coming, porners are coming!

we are EVERYWHERE!

Time to enter the Political Life!
;-0)))))

[SweetT]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 17 2003, 02:51 PM
and he has advertising venues and you do not
;-)))))


Oh, I have advertising venues at my disposal, you know that :)


If I know Joe as well as I think I do he will be a valid competitor....not like some of these people that think they can become a host with no investment. If you look around GFY for the past 72 hours I think there are threads on 2 or 3 different hosts that have gone bye-bye. :)


--T

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by SweetT+Apr 17 2003, 02:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SweetT @ Apr 17 2003, 02:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Serge_Oprano@Apr 17 2003, 02:51 PM
and he has advertising venues and you do not
;-)))))


Oh, I have advertising venues at my disposal, you know that :)


If I know Joe as well as I think I do he will be a valid competitor....not like some of these people that think they can become a host with no investment. If you look around GFY for the past 72 hours I think there are threads on 2 or 3 different hosts that have gone bye-bye. :)


--T[/b][/quote]
Good for all remaining players!

I belive that 5-7 hosters is more than enough!
;-=)))

[Anthony]

Originally posted by gigi@Apr 17 2003, 08:34 AM
What a kewl thread :)

March 1, '99 for me. I had just quit a job working for the credit bureau as a skip tracer. I was tired of hunting down people to pay their bills...lol.

I was a total chat junkie from '95 'til then. I also had my very own personal geocities site too, made with Netscape Composer. I had no idea there was actual CODE behind the pages I made...hahaha.

I had a 'dancer' friend who asked me to put up a site for her. So, I started researching and after a couple of weeks, realized I could make far more money making my own sites, than a site for her...haha.

I started on a freehost too. Then I finally splurged and bought a few domains and a $25 a month host. I still wasn't making a whole lot of money, but then things turned around when I sold my first domain for $2k. I was estatic!!

I took the money and invested it into more domains, content etc etc. Best thing I ever did.

Worked with snoops for RookieClass for 2 years and then landed my current position with CQ2 and I've never looked back. :)

As for Serge, I didn't meet him until 2001 I believe. Snoops introduced us at one of the shows.

But my meeting with his beautiful wife ladylaw was pretty memorable for me. I was at a show in Vancouver. I was at the hotel wandering around and saw her sitting at a piano in the corner of a room, playing. I had no idea who she was. I walked over and we started talking and then we played a simple duet together...haha.

Low and behold, she is now Serge's wife. :)

I look back now and see how much people's lives have changed in the time I've been doing this. From marriages to having babies and even death.

This biz really isn't as big as it may seem.
LOL, I remember you asking me the difference between raws and uniques! :D

[dantheman]

Originally posted by SweetT+Apr 17 2003, 02:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SweetT @ Apr 17 2003, 02:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Serge_Oprano@Apr 17 2003, 02:51 PM
and he has advertising venues and you do not
;-)))))


Oh, I have advertising venues at my disposal, you know that :)


If I know Joe as well as I think I do he will be a valid competitor....not like some of these people that think they can become a host with no investment. If you look around GFY for the past 72 hours I think there are threads on 2 or 3 different hosts that have gone bye-bye. :)


--T[/b][/quote]
their either going bye or getting bought out. Can't sale below cost or have bad service in any business, much less one that's as competive as the hosting biz is.

[Menace]

started in like march of '96 with a partner, my mainstream world boss at the time. My ideas, my work, his money.

Free site initially freeadult.com (which he has since LOST) fuckin idiot...

then started a paysite a few months later.

Ugly 'breakup' with him in 98 and been pluggin along ever since..

I was actually responsible for getting a 'name' into the business back then, didn't receive as much as a thank you even though he lives like a king now.. Ingrates :steemed:

ah well...

[gigi]

Originally posted by Anthony@Apr 17 2003, 12:06 PM
LOL, I remember you asking me the difference between raws and uniques! :D
HAHAHAHA.....oh man Anthony...I was going to say something about you too *blush*.....yup....you DEFINITELY were there for me in my beginnings....I hadn't a CLUE! haha BUT, you gotta ask those questions to SOMEBODY right? Just glad it was youuuuuu! (where the hell is Moose these days anywayyyyyyy??)

I remember sitting at my puter talking to you on ICQ and thinking 'geez, this guy lives in FL and I'm in Vancouver. We'll NEVER meet in real life...'

Of course I was totally wrong (thankfully). You ended up moving to Van. and we've met and had lunch on a couple of occasions. :)


:rokk:



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[Anthony]

Originally posted by gigi+Apr 17 2003, 12:42 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gigi @ Apr 17 2003, 12:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Anthony@Apr 17 2003, 12:06 PM
LOL, I remember you asking me the difference between raws and uniques! :D
HAHAHAHA.....oh man Anthony...I was going to say something about you too *blush*.....yup....you DEFINITELY were there for me in my beginnings....I hadn't a CLUE! haha BUT, you gotta ask those questions to SOMEBODY right? Just glad it was youuuuuu! (where the hell is Moose these days anywayyyyyyy??)

I remember sitting at my puter talking to you on ICQ and thinking 'geez, this guy lives in FL and I'm in Vancouver. We'll NEVER meet in real life...'

Of course I was totally wrong (thankfully). You ended up moving to Van. and we've met and had lunch on a couple of occasions. :)


:rokk:[/b][/quote]
hehe, yeah life is funny isn't it?

Moose is here http://www.phatservers.net 300+ servers. Serving the TGP community and Free Site webmasters since 2002. =o)

[gigi]

Originally posted by Anthony@Apr 17 2003, 01:11 PM
hehe, yeah life is funny isn't it?

Moose is here http://www.phatservers.net 300+ servers. Serving the TGP community and Free Site webmasters since 2002. =o)
Well I'll Be! I didn't know phatservers was him! Good for him!

Tell him I said 'howdy!' :)

[Bama]

What a trip down memory lane!

I was just a web surfer back in 97 that had (as most surfers do) saved up a ton of nudie pictures on my pc.

I was working at Pepsi and had no clue even how to build a website so One day I clicked on the Ynot button on PK's website and was dumb enough to post on the board that I had a ton of images and wanted to know what to do with them!

Well, Serge being Serge, jumped all over my newbie ass!

I started teaching myself html and registered the domain xxxwebmaster.com and put up my first site. Pushrod and Spanky gave me my first links - then PK, then a few others and every Monday I went over to Colin's site and stole his thumbnails and pictures cause we all had the same ZMaster content.

I met Jonathan and the WebMistress and attended the show down in Florida where I watched Serge get a lap dance at Denny's.

I was hooked and have been doing this ever since

[Ponda]

At the end of this month I will have been in the adult business for 1 month! I started in mainstream hosting in 1997 so I do have some experience. Looking forward to this new avenue I have started down.

[Moose]

Originally posted by Anthony+Apr 17 2003, 04:11 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Anthony @ Apr 17 2003, 04:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by -gigi@Apr 17 2003, 12:42 PM
<!--QuoteBegin--Anthony@Apr 17 2003, 12:06 PM
LOL, I remember you asking me the difference between raws and uniques! :D
HAHAHAHA.....oh man Anthony...I was going to say something about you too *blush*.....yup....you DEFINITELY were there for me in my beginnings....I hadn't a CLUE! haha BUT, you gotta ask those questions to SOMEBODY right? Just glad it was youuuuuu! (where the hell is Moose these days anywayyyyyyy??)

I remember sitting at my puter talking to you on ICQ and thinking 'geez, this guy lives in FL and I'm in Vancouver. We'll NEVER meet in real life...'

Of course I was totally wrong (thankfully). You ended up moving to Van. and we've met and had lunch on a couple of occasions. :)


:rokk:
hehe, yeah life is funny isn't it?

Moose is here http://www.phatservers.net 300+ servers. Serving the TGP community and Free Site webmasters since 2002. =o)[/b][/quote]
2001 bro..

Just had our second birthday :rokk:


:bwave: GiGi

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Bama@Apr 17 2003, 06:47 PM


Well, Serge being Serge, jumped all over my newbie ass!


Bama, that was hillarious when I sent you to the office building and even gave you the floor number to sell thosae images like girlscouts sell cookies
;-))

tookj you a while to figure out I was pulling your leg
;-)))

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Bama@Apr 17 2003, 06:47 PM


I met Jonathan and the WebMistress and attended the show down in Florida where I watched Serge get a lap dance at Denny's.

I was hooked and have been doing this ever since
those r one of the best memories ever!
;-)))

Mark,
Bangwang,
remember that nite????
;-))))

[gigi]

:bwave: Moose!!

Good to see you out and about! Congrats on http://www.phatservers.net ! A 2 year anniversary online is like what....10 regular time years? hehe

BTW....love the button! haha

[Mike AI]

Sweet T, I remember first dealing with you.... I thought we were going to have a hard time, but once we ironed out things, it has been a great relationship!!

I also have to give you props, because while I helped you a little, you have alway remembered it, and have always gone out of your way for me and to return 100 fold....

You are indeed a class act... I am very proud of how much you have achieved ( through your hard work and intellect), and am happier to consider you a good friend.

One thing this industry have brought all of us besides riches, is great friendships that will last a lifetime!

( now back to watching the lifetime channel.... :P )

[XXXPhoto]

MikeAI,

Steel Magnolias is playing on Starz all month... lol

[Vick]

Originally posted by XXXPhoto@Apr 18 2003, 01:59 AM
Steel Magnolias is playing on Starz all month
Why does it scare, but not surprise me that you know that


If it wasn't for Julia Roberts being in that movie and your southern heritage I'd call for an estrogen check :D

[XXXPhoto]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 17 2003, 04:59 PM
Mark,
Bangwang,
remember that nite????
;-))))
Serge,

Remember? I've still got the content on cd...lol Also some shots of her with video game toy pistol up her cootchie and a few of her trying to mount a door knob...

I do have a very nice 5x7 of Bangwang stepping out of the shower... I guess the water was REALLY cold... lmao

If it wasn't for Julia Roberts being in that movie and your southern heritage I'd call for an estrogen check

Fuck Julia, gimmie a crack at Shirley MacLaine... I've got "Two Mules for Sister Sara" right ch'ere...
:wankit:

[Winetalk.com]

Mark,
post 'em, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

..including the "cold water" ones
;-)))

[XXXPhoto]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Apr 18 2003, 05:02 AM
Mark,
post 'em, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

..including the "cold water" ones
;-)))
Serge,

I was taught to respect my elders and besides, Richard would kill me...

I found one of the toy pistol pics, edited it some to protect identity...lol
http://www.intersmart.com/forserge.jpg

I'll have to look for those others (her fawning all over you) though; been a LONG time... could even be on the pc I donated to the church... lol

Tad took those pics back in Oct of 97, so maybe Vick can get ya some copies... Tad used to own sadam.com back then too, wonder if he had sense to keep it? What's the story on the Tad'ster there Vick?

[Forest]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 17 2003, 07:17 PM
One thing this industry have brought all of us besides riches, is great friendships that will last a lifetime!


Here Here Mike

Verry ture indeed!!!

:rokk:

[SweetT]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Apr 17 2003, 10:17 PM
One thing this industry have brought all of us besides riches, is great friendships that will last a lifetime!

( now back to watching the lifetime channel.... :P )
Aw, shucks Mike..... :cryin:

I tell people all the time that my circle of friends in the business gets smaller and smaller every day and I am proud to include you in that list.

Now why do I feel the urge for a sandwich and sparkling water for lunch?


--T

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by SweetT@Apr 18 2003, 09:43 AM


Now why do I feel the urge for a sandwich and sparkling water for lunch?


--T
you NEED sparkling water and kill the sandwich!

you and your fat ass almost caused me to have a heart atack in 99 when you sit on the back of my couch and I almost heard it crackin'!
;-)))

[Vick]

Originally posted by XXXPhoto@Apr 18 2003, 08:33 AM
Tad took those pics back in Oct of 97, so maybe Vick can get ya some copies... Tad used to own sadam.com back then too, wonder if he had sense to keep it? What's the story on the Tad'ster there Vick?
I may have some copies somewhere but trying to find them between 6K+ not filed hardcopy actual photo images is more than I'm willing to try

As for Tad - haven't heard from him in about 2 years, Last I spoke with him he was selling off some domains and trying to get together some work transferring government paper to computer files
Hell if I know what happened to him since

[socks manly]

I actually got into the adult business with a free story site in 1995-6 I believe through ClickCash or ClickBucks.. I set up 2 robots, one would sit in 10 different IRC channels, and send the nicknames of people who entered to another robot. That robot wouldn't be in any channels, but would send messages to the people who joined. They couldn't kick me, because I wasn't in the channel. :)

I helped start MyDesktop.com and 12 other sites when I was 14 (HardwareCentral.com, OzoneGames.com, Win98.net, FileFarm.com, WinPlanet.com, VirtualDR.com, etc.) and then started TwoMobile.com, then figured I'd take a stab at adult again. I really enjoy being in this business. My girlfriend is getting scared when I say I want to start shooting content and getting a studio and such, so I'm a bit confused there, but whatever.. I'll do what I wanna anyways. ;)

Glad to be here and meet you all,

[Mike AI]

Socks, that is an interesting history... you have been around for a long time. Welcome to Oprano!!

[sextoyking]

Socks,

Welcome to Oprano you old timer :)

[Hooper]

Gosh. i feeel like sharing.

My fraternity brother and his hot girlfriend were making like 20k a month in early 98 doing a live webcam site of their own.. collegecouplecam i think it was.. i was full time in college and working nights as tech support at dell.

long story short.. the girlfriend went nuts and left.. he had members to satisfy.. so i ran some ads and found him a new couple.. took 30% of the gross.. saw the margins and started duplicating as fast as we could.. at the top we had something like 10 24/7 live couple cam sites going..

partner and i had very different views on where to take things.. needless to say he is working at an enterprise rent-a-car now and i'm stuck here telling you about it ;-)

[Mike AI]

partner and i had very different views on where to take things.. needless to say he is working at an enterprise rent-a-car now and i'm stuck here telling you about it ;-)


:rokk: :okthumb:

[sextoyking]

Hooper,

good story.. You have done well in this biz.

:rokk:

[Vick]

All I want’s a girl to make me some mac and cheese
All I want’s a girl to make me some mac and cheese

Just straight up mac with no franks or peas
But every girl who’s made me mac and cheese
Has always turned out to be a violent sociopath

All I want’s a girl to make me some brussels sprouts
All I want’s a girl to make me some brussels sprouts

She’d know me inside and out
But every girl who’s made me brussels sprouts
Has always turned out to be a violent sociopath

All I want’s a girl to make me iced tea from a powder
All I want’s a girl to make me iced tea from a powder

But when I yell for joy, she yells louder
’Cause every girl who’d made me iced tea from a powder
Has always turned out to be a violent sociopath

All I want’s a girl who’s not a violent sociopath

All I want’s a gril who’s not a violent sociopath

Love her ’til my dying breath
Man, fuck the food — I’ll starve to death
If I could just find a girl who’s not a violent sociopath

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Apr 16 2003, 08:26 PM
Does hocking scanned playboy pics on a dialup BBS count as online adult biz? If so, that puts me back into the 80's. I can remember being dazzled by the way Miss February looked in a grey scale Macpaint format. Before that we were limited to printing the girlies out on the printer using nothing but ASCII characters and then getting way back from the printout at which time all of those characters would make out the shape of a nude babe!

Had a day job that put me on the web VERY early, vintage 1993 when Mosaic was the only game in town and pretty much the only way to get on the web was bring in your own T-1 or frame and run your own servers. My oldest domain has a creation date of 3/24/1993.

Dabbled with putting naked pics on the net for a couple of years using it mostly to feed back to subscriptions on the BBS. In the early days the porn action wasn't on the web, most people had shell accounts via companies like Netcom that they used for email and newsgroups.

FM popped my advertising cherry with FastCash sometime around late 96/early 97. Things took off from there.

First adult trade show would've been InternetExpo/Vegas in 97 or 98, I forget which. It was the one held in the Monte Carlo back when the show still had a heavy 900# influence. I remember that show was the one where the booths were split between two locations in the hotel and a lot of people failed to even notice that there were two halls.

Geez...I'm feeling really old now.
Hell Puppy be talking about NGS [nasty grey shit] and gifdot.

And Peaches if youd get out more you could see the Goldstein's at my office.
Need a number?

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Colin@Apr 17 2003, 04:55 AM
Oh, domains at $70 for two years. And weren't they $100 briefly because of a government tax on them?

We had to buy thousands for search engines. It changed the SE game when prices were dropped to $10-$15 and people were able to start buying 1000 domains for $10,000.
Domains were free when we started....

[Peaches]

Originally posted by gonzo@Apr 22 2003, 01:46 PM
And Peaches if youd get out more you could see the Goldstein's at my office.
Need a number?
Hehehe - why don't you sorry butt city folks come up here to God's Country and visit? B) Or you can come get me - I don't go ITP (Inside The Perimeter for you non-Atlanta folks), unless someone's driving me. :agrin:

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Peaches+Apr 22 2003, 10:07 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Peaches @ Apr 22 2003, 10:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--gonzo@Apr 22 2003, 01:46 PM
And Peaches if youd get out more you could see the Goldstein's at my office.
Need a number?
Hehehe - why don't you sorry butt city folks come up here to God's Country and visit? B) Or you can come get me - I don't go ITP (Inside The Perimeter for you non-Atlanta folks), unless someone's driving me. :agrin:[/b][/quote]
Dont give me that...I know you been down here eatling that family style southern cooking at Sylvia's with Sweet T....

Damn I should eat there tomorrow for lunch!

[Peaches]

Originally posted by gonzo@Apr 22 2003, 02:23 PM
Dont give me that...I know you been down here eatling that family style southern cooking at Sylvia's with Sweet T....

Damn I should eat there tomorrow for lunch!
I've eaten there before, but not with T :( And it was someone else driving me :P

Now, I've also been known to drive THROUGH Atlanta....and I'll stop in Atlanta if someone's with me with precise knowledge of the area. I have the WORST sense of direction, so even though I've been living here for 30+ years, I still end up winding my way through some not-so-desirable-areas if I try to navigate it on my own. :zoinks:

That's what I love about Ellijay - I can get really, really lost and still not be more than a couple of blocks away from where I need to be. :)

[Rictor]

1996. I was a dumb college kid. I got into AVS for the free password to Adult Check. You had to make a site and 1 sale and then you had an Adult Check password that would get you into any AC site.

I thru up a celeb site in about 10 minutes and had $50 worth of sales from the AC link list by the next day. After that, I didn't care about the free porn...I was in it for the money.

If only I had known then what I do now...

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Rictor@Apr 22 2003, 02:02 PM


If only I had known then what I do now...
...and those who can't say that-
cast the first stone in my face
;-)))

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Peaches+Apr 22 2003, 10:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Peaches @ Apr 22 2003, 10:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--gonzo@Apr 22 2003, 02:23 PM
Dont give me that...I know you been down here eatling that family style southern cooking at Sylvia's with Sweet T....

Damn I should eat there tomorrow for lunch!
I've eaten there before, but not with T :( And it was someone else driving me :P

Now, I've also been known to drive THROUGH Atlanta....and I'll stop in Atlanta if someone's with me with precise knowledge of the area. I have the WORST sense of direction, so even though I've been living here for 30+ years, I still end up winding my way through some not-so-desirable-areas if I try to navigate it on my own. :zoinks:

That's what I love about Ellijay - I can get really, really lost and still not be more than a couple of blocks away from where I need to be. :)[/b][/quote]
Peachy--

Ill meet ya down there next time you do a drive by...

[Peaches]

Originally posted by gonzo@Apr 22 2003, 03:29 PM
Peachy--

Ill meet ya down there next time you do a drive by...
It's a deal! :okthumb:

[Hell Puppy]

Ellijay needs a churrascaria!

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Apr 22 2003, 10:32 PM
Ellijay needs a churrascaria!
As soon as you tell me what the HECK that is..... :zoinks:...... I'll see if Wig will get one. B)

[Hell Puppy]

Here's the best one in Atlanta:

http://www.fogodechao.com


Unfortunately it's inside the perimeter. They throw an extra cow on the fire when they see me and GonZo coming.

[Peaches]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Apr 23 2003, 12:14 AM
Here's the best one in Atlanta:

http://www.fogodechao.com


Unfortunately it's inside the perimeter. They throw an extra cow on the fire when they see me and GonZo coming.
It's not connecting, but I think I've eaten there - many years (8?) ago? Or some similar restaurant. :blink:

And BTW, our Mexican restaurant DOES stay open past 9 AND serves booze - I think it's the only restaurant in town that does both. Come to think of it, it may be the only restaurant that sells booze. B)

But when the Walmart Mega City gets built, I'm sure there will be tons of restaurants. :angry:

[VooMan]

Damn Hell Puppy, that is one of the best restaurants I have ever been to...

I think I feel a craving coming on... hahaha



Last edited by VooMan at Apr 23 2003, 09:02 AM

[gonzo]

Originally posted by VooMan@Apr 23 2003, 06:02 AM
Damn Hell Puppy, that is one of the best restaurants I have ever been to...

I think I feel a craving coming on... hahaha
Me and Hell Puppy are availible THrusday night for that pimp bus to come pick us up ...if your buyin Im flyin!

[Hell Puppy]

Originally posted by Peaches+Apr 22 2003, 11:50 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Peaches @ Apr 22 2003, 11:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Hell Puppy@Apr 23 2003, 12:14 AM
Here's the best one in Atlanta:

http://www.fogodechao.com


Unfortunately it's inside the perimeter. They throw an extra cow on the fire when they see me and GonZo coming.
It's not connecting, but I think I've eaten there - many years (8?) ago? Or some similar restaurant. :blink:

And BTW, our Mexican restaurant DOES stay open past 9 AND serves booze - I think it's the only restaurant in town that does both. Come to think of it, it may be the only restaurant that sells booze. B)

But when the Walmart Mega City gets built, I'm sure there will be tons of restaurants. :angry:[/b][/quote]
Try the link again.

It aint mexican or even similar. It's Brazillian.

The Brazillian gauchos cook large hunks of various types of meat, and they're quite good at it. The flavor is excellent. They then bring around the hunks of meat and will carve you off a piece.

It's like an amusement park for carnivores. You pay one price, and they'll keep bringing meat by the table til you either leave or explode. Yes, there is a salad bar and sides, but you go there for meat.

They have like 15 or so different types of meat, it's mostly beef, but they do have some other tasty animals as well. The bacon wrapped chicken is excellent as is the parmesan coated pork.

Anyone who really appreciates a good steak will usually have multiple foodgasms in there. I would go more often, but it requires going to Buckhead and also probably raises your cholestorol at least 25 points.