I learned how to make websites (htm etc), eventually created the one mainstream site but after a several months, one of my good friends showed me his porn sites (and taught me a few things about the industry) and I dived into adult.

Well it was 98 and I got involved in the domain business. I ran into Rick S and got some advice about registering type in domains. Naturally the domains with the most typeins were adult.

But every domain registered, even business, in those days were directed to adult affiliates because they were the only ones making money online.

We just used to throw up a coloured html page with an enter button that automatically redirected people to a pay porn site.

Even today we still own several hundred adult domains but only direct the traffic to ppc. I've never directly been in the adult biz. I considered it at one point but the girls in the pics were the same age as my daughter and I just couldn't do it.

Well I started as a cofounder of a cam studio ! Me and my business partner we worked hard to get that studio big and after an argument about money I left him and I kept the sites we had at that time (all were made by me he hadn't any IT skills) and he kept the studio but the models also left the studio since he wasn't able to manege it , now, after 6 years I left him, he is working as a constructor in UK and I am still in adult and making money !

I must admit that I need to thank him for bringing me to this because I like what I do !

I spent a lot of time learning SEO and thought " Hey, il start up with the porn industry, make some easy money and invest it in the type of sites id really like to build like Adsense/Affiliate". 2 years later im still here and realising the easy money is long gone. Still my goal to make enough to get into mainstream though

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Thanks for sharing. Where did you get the idea of starting a cam studio?

I got that idea when I was in the highschool when I found that a classmate of mine is a cam girl , of course I started the studio later aftfer 5 years or so ! I remember that in the first day of work I made 98$ my money(my share) was a great start for me at that time !

Awesome stuff :)

Started as an employee of an outsourcing company. Get to handle a few clients. One of the clients offered 4x my current salary for me to work full time for him.. I quit my job. Started S2O. That's it. The rest is history! :thumbsup

Started as a hobby running a couple of BBS using WildCat and Galacticomm tied into FidoNet and Usenet. I was charging to download pictures and shareware. It was easier for folks than using Archie, Gopher, WAIS and uudecoding multipart images. Once the Internet became commercial, it was a natural transition. I pulled pics from Usenet and the adult industry (Sin City Entertainment, Evil Angel, JM Productions, and others) would send me what they called their 20 sheets of chromes for free. It was pure profit.

A friend of mine bought an AVS membership (UGAS) - I looked at it closely and saw dollar signs...

Nearly 20 years later here I am - Still poor - lol.....