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Way back in the pre-Internet days, magazines often had little classified ads sections in the back. There was nearly always a couple of businesses that almost sa
by dsr_ 8y ago
Way back in the pre-Internet days, magazines often had little classified ads sections in the back. There was nearly always a couple of businesses that almost said they would send you pornography, usually for scientific and educational purposes; an offer to sell you a weather balloon or information on ham radio clubs or telescope kits; and at least one ad like this:
Make money at home stuffing envelopes! Send SASE and enclose $2.50 for our guide on how you can make money in your spare time!
And if you were foolish enough to send them the money and a SASE -- a self-addressed stamped envelope, the equivalent of an HTTP GET -- you would get a sheet of instructions, which began: "Take out an ad in a magazine telling people to send you a SASE and money. Make copies of this sheet and stuff them in the SASEs..."
- madsohm 8y agoThis is what I see the most of online with regards to blogs making money as well. Blogs about how to make money on blogs. No actual content anymore. It's a bit sad, that the internet has only gone as far as classified at the back of magazines.
- jstarfish 8y agoYou might see these around town as well, usually written on cardboard signs with a black marker, soliciting "trainees needed for real estate investor" or some variant of the make-money-from-home-and-get-rich scheme. Step 1 is always the same-- pay me $1K for a "startup kit," then find two other suckers and get them to pay you $1K for their own. Just the same, you can't read a travel blog without finding ads for TravelBlogSuccess on it. "Travel the world, write about it and get paid! Get super secret access to our exclusive message board! Just pay us $400, then we'll give you a small cut for any additional suckers you recruit." There are no end of rubes desperate enough to leave their office job to join a pyramid scheme I suppose.