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I just want to share with you my experience on my website. It all started back in 1988. Back in 1988? Yes , it was a BBS. People dialed in to get information I knew about. It was not making any money to me anyway. I jumped in making a website pretty late. I never thought needing anything like a "browser" could be of any success. However, several years later, when my son was born, I decided to make a website.
The site was a success instantly, I thought. 80 uniques a day back then seemed like a lot.
I hadn't heard of Adsense back then. Hell, it didn't excist.
The site has run add free for several years. For the last two years I've had adsense (one add per page) on the site and it's bringing in more money I could ever have imagined.
Anyone else care to tell your story?
[edited by: Bddmed at 9:52 pm (utc) on Oct. 24, 2006]
Ann
I remember having to grok those Hayes "AT"
Strangely, those commands flourished and even though Hayes wasn't at the front of the pack, as the modems usefulness diminished, the commands were still there on the last few I used!
Similar to the Centronics parallel printer interface that's used on virtually all PC printers. It was designed by the Centronics Corp. one of the original PC printer manufacturers, who didn't stay in the game long at all, while their interface design (with some enhancement by Epson) has been going strong for 25 years.
Chapman
[edited by: Chapman at 12:51 am (utc) on Oct. 26, 2006]
I'm not exactly a spring chicken but I really wasn't interested in computers until the (non-text) internet came out. I've been playing catch up for 10 years, and I still feel like a newbie.
Two years later it was traded in for a MZ-800, with floppy drive. I remember one floppy costing $50 a piece! But you could store 64kB on each side!
I learned coding very fast at that time what resulted in my daddy having to drag me all around the country to meet fellow specialists.
The most successful thing I made back then, was a game with words flying from right to left on the screen. You had to type it before it hits a wall. The game was later copied for use on a commodore (64/vic20). Damn still have to sue those "duplicate content publishers".
;)
Ironically - I ended up working for the CAA writing software to investigate aircraft near-misses ( or near-hits as they should be called).
I'm not an old-timer, but a 12-year career in this biz is enough cred to suffice, I think. If you can remember the Netscape IPO, that's enough for me to consider you a well-aged web geek. Extra points if you know what "Snipes" is.
