Damn! It's been 15 years!

[DannyCox]

I just realized that Carol and I have now been doing this for 15 years! WOW! The first website, Wild Rose Fireside Chat was started in late April, 1994. In 1995, we changed that to Wild Rose Amateur Home Page and then in 1996, we changed her name from Wild Rose to Carol Cox.

We started all this just for fun, and with no thought given to making money. Back in 1994, there was no commercialization of the Internet, and everyone was just fucking around. When Carol's site started to get bust, and bandwidth was actually costing us money, we started doing mail order video sales on her website. That took off, and we were mailing out 800 VHS tapes a week on average at the peak. We sold over 30,000 copies of her first video "Video Virgin". A friend of Evil Chris's owned a large video duplication facility here in Montreal, and they handled all the duplication for us.

We didn't start a paysite until January 1, 1997. I still have the notes I made about the profit we would realize by selling 10 memberships a day. On that first day, we had 222 sign-ups! By March of 1997, I quit my Engineering job at Bell Helicopters and went full on with our company

The Internet has been very good to us, and continues to be so. We have downsized since the peak days, and were actually back to just having fun and fucking around. We'll keep it up for a few more years yet, and I'll keep playing with all my sailing and travel sites.

There is no real point to this post, I'm just sitting here ruminating on the past. I should do a press release and send it off to AVN. Lately, they seem to make a big deal about people hitting their 10 year anniversaries! What Newbies!