:1orglaugh :( . . .

Gary Kremen, Sex.com, Botto's, there's tons missing...

I could give you a whole book on the real history of adult online, starting from the very very beginning.

I won't do the entire thing here, but let me give a tiny clip:

In the beginning (1994-1995), there were a few adult web sites that hosted personal and/or favorite nudes and porn pics. Those sites would typically appear, be fun for a few days to a few weeks until people other than the creator of the site learned about them, they'd get a few hundred visitors, and then they'd get taken down.

They got taken down because these little personal sites would be hit with bandwidth bills for up to a couple hundred dollars (bandwidth was exxxxpensive and a few hundred visitors was a BIG site). Since there was no way to make money, they'd simply disappear. It was very hard to find good web sites in those early days, but there were a handful that would appear now and then.

So I got a 900# phone sex line and started the XPics Site of the Day, where I featured a quality web site each day. At the time, there were three players in the industry. Me (XPics), Persian Kitty (#2), and Serge - who kept putting up amazing free web site content!

At that time, there were no banners and no one to advertise. My phone sex line blew up, and I developed the first banner program and the first membership web site (Sex Roulette). Suddenly, free web sites could advertise, and they could pay the bills! As soon as my affiliate program went live, the number of free web sites exploded and the next 18 months were the heyday of early adult.

Then we get to Charter Pacific, Visa, and that's all a story for another day I suppose. But this above is how the real modern adult era of the web came to be...

I remember initially getting into producing membership sites after I saw people scanning pages from my magazines and putting membership gates up.

Any example of TGP2? Over the years many people talked about them but everybody has a different idea of them.

It was TGP2stupid.

:2 cents:

If we're adding specific adult processors (I still have PTSD from iBill), it might be fair to break out some of the most prominent tube sites.

PornHub and xHamster might deserve top level listing?

Also, I don't see any mention of the period during which Verotel tried to require them holding the domains of the actual member sites they were processing for. That was pretty weird.

:2 cents:

Don't forget counters. Sexhound, SexList, SexTracker, etc.... :upsidedow

I still make money on Cams

the latest would logically be the "model self sale sites" taking storm.

There´s many now, like OnlyFans, LoyalFans, Fancentro, Fansly, AVN stars, peach, smuttyfans, so many more, but you get my POV.. :thumbsup

It’s cute watching people with tunnel vision describe the industry

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Freeones :thumbsup

Updated list:

- BBS photo swapping
- Single page banner farms
- Xpics fraud drama
- Newsgroups
- Free Web Hosts
- Exit consoles
- The end of Pay per click programs
- Dialers
- CJ's
- CJII (clean fake TGPs)
- TGPs
- Sexcounters. Sexhound, SexList, SexTracker, etc....
- SMS billing
- Thumb tgp's replacing text tgp's
- Globill fiasco
- iBill fiasco
- Paypal closes porn accounts
- TGP2
- P2P
- HD video hype
- MGP's
- DRM video
- Mastercard/Visa $1000 fee & 1% chargeback rule
- Traffic Brokers
- GEO IP ads/traffic
- Like Whoa Meltdown
- Acacia (streaming video patent)
- *.XXX domain names
- Blogs
- 2257 Law
- My Virtual Card
- Zango/Spyware
- Google ads blocked for adult
- Consolidation of Affiliate programs
- Tube sites
- Cross sales
- Epassporte fiasco
- Review websites
- Cams, cams, cams
- Discount websites
- Patreon/OnlyFans style sites
- Auto generated scritp Wordpress sites
- Clip4Sale style sites
- API's
- Crypto currencies payments & payouts
- Virtual expo's
- Start of upload-accounts verification
- Adult legends starting to die