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I was about to graduate w/ a degree in art -- and my boss at the ISP I worked at was a total moron -- he got all his startup money from daddy -- and I had heard some people making big money on this porn stuff -- new cars and gold chains and shit -- I figured wtf do these guys know that I don't know -- the www is just html -- how hard could that be. I had already been running BBS's for years as a kid -- so I knew how to write simple programs -- I wrote a script in java which basically trolled the internet for pics and webmaster emails (I didn't know that hotlinking was bad ;) -- and then I sent emails to all the webmasters telling them that I had hotlinked all their pics and that I would also link their site if they linked to my pic engine -- hehe -- well needless to say I got a few legal threats and one of the webmasters contacted the ISP that I worked at -- not sure if my boss found out what I was doing, but the people in the office thought it was funny as hell. Anyway after a bit more trial and error I came upon a successful formula and I think I got lucky w/ one of the search engines -- then hooked up w/ Steve from pornqueens.net (think I got his attention w/ all that search engine traffic) and from there I was pretty hooked up. When I graduated from college, and about the same time my ISP was bought out -- quit my job -- I decided to go full time. For a while I was living on Checker's hamburgers because AdBucks in Canada was fucking me over w/ checks that were three months late -- and I tried a lot of ad programs that didn't convert my traffic... but I think the moment of truth was when I was on the phone w/ Tommy from tommys-bookmarks.com and he told me about all these TGP punks that were making tons of money w/ AP so I tried it and fell in love ;)
-- There are a few people (some girls will think you're creepy hehe ;) uncomfortable w/ the idea of you running a porn site -- but most of my friends are pretty open minded and recognize the important role that porn plays in our society ;) Anyway all the money that I make w/ AP has allowed me to live a modestly comfortable life -- I have the time and resources to help out my friends when they it -- and I have enough time to work on my paintings. Another thing about AP that is cool is that you're promoting something that was done w/ some taste. I have a little more pride promoting AP than something like animalcash.com
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-- thefly.net
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