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Originally Posted by Konda
I remember emailing Persian Kitty asking if she could put a link to my site and the next day Angelfire deleted my site because I got like 30K visitors from the small text link she added to her friends list.
I remember annoying audio banners "Gold Key Casino, Click on Our Banner to Win".
I remember switching from free hosting account to free hosting account only to be kicked again and again, but it only took a few days every time to get all the traffic back.
I also remember I figured out how to be #1 on infoseek for keywords, but lots of others knew as well, so you constantly had to re-submit a new page and if you were lucky you were the #1 right before the weekend (when they stopped updating the rankings). I think it made about $250 a day for the #1 ranking for sex
I remember combining 2 ISDN lines to get a whopping 128kbit/s (paying twice the phone minutes to stay online).
I remember the biggest search engine was altavista, but they didn't have altavista.com but something like altavista.subdomain.com and if you went to altavista.com it said that they were not the search engine and they had a small text link to the altavista search engine.
I remember some guy emailing me that he could host my site for free on a real domain, all I had to do was add a popup to his site. He probably made a fortune of it, while I had no clue I could make money of it.
I remember some other guy emailing me I should add banners to my site and I could make money with my site. Best advice I ever had lol 
I remember getting my first check (xpics?) and I went to the bank to cash it, only to find out I had to wait a month for my money (in EU).
I remember you could register .com domains and not pay and use them for like 2 months.
You could also just change/steal other people's domains by just changing the sender address in your outlook.
I remember you could pay Yahoo $200 to get a site listed and making several $100 a day from it. It was alphabetically sorted so everyone used like 1111somedomainname.com. They later changed it to $600. |
i found the best free hosting in 98, psybercore. the guy who ran it only required a regular sized banner at the bottom of every page. it was pretty sweet while it lasted. eventually i outgrew it and got paid hosting with janey's.
i actually owe my start in adult and making money online to the guy (drewstar) at psybercore. i was using his free hosting for my realaudio site when i got an email from him about how much he was making with adultcheck sites. i hated my job at the time and thought it was worth giving a try.
i used to have my entry pages set up so when someone clicked enter a new browser window would open and then the entry page would forward to call-girls.net which made some good coin as it was pay per click.
it was so easy to get the number one spots on aol just by using keyword stuffing but stupid me, instead of sending this traffic direct to sponsors i was more interested in building traffic on my sites.
i got my main site listed with yahoo for free and that brought in so much good traffic, i didn't have to work for months after that. the money just kept coming in.
and of course you can't forget about dialers. i made over 10k from one small link at the bottom of my main page after only a month before it got shut down.