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Originally Posted by Rochard
Our industry has changed in ways most of us cannot imagine...
When I first started in this industry.... Before you even thought about taking your first picture you have to design, build, and then maintain a computer (very difficult in the 1990s), then build a website (leaning HTML, server management), shooting content (Some of us scanned photos in by hand, and then for video we had to purchase and install special video cards), then get the traffic, then do the marketing, and then handle the affiliates... While talking girls into posing naked for cash.
It was expensive too. I remember spending $500 on a single hard drive - and getting a free "zipp drive" along with it.
These days... People who couldn't program the time on their VCR twenty years ago can build a website on their cell phone with little effort.
It's gotten too easy.
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And then there are those of us who painfully remember setting up Renegade (or whatever BBS software you found easiest to manage) to run local adult bulletin boards. Our KastleArchives.com existed as a BDSM BBS that pre-dated the 'net.
Granted, we weren't producing our own content at the time. Digital cameras were still a few years away and we didn't have the resources to do film.
Zip drives, geez...I remember those. We even had an HP Colorado travan tape drive at one point. But I still remember building our first PC-XT system with a 20mb HD and 640K of RAM. Twin 5 1/4" floppy drives. 2400baud Zoltrix modem which we eventually upgraded to a 14.4 USRobotics card.
The capabilities of the S10 Galaxy I carry these days would've been unimaginable back then. As you say, so much easier these days for a monkey to use a smartphone to do all the things it took an entire desk workstation filled with hardware.