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




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

[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.

One never tires of hearing about such things.

[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?

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 ), 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

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.

[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! And all his many relatives, lol!

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

[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! And all his many relatives, lol!

Jeff lives in my state and I only run into him in Florida, Vegas, etc. [/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-->