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Both $100 and $1000: Way back in the dial up days, there used to be companies that paid you by the hour to run an always-on-top ad bar on your computer while yo
by freeplay 3y ago
Both $100 and $1000: Way back in the dial up days, there used to be companies that paid you by the hour to run an always-on-top ad bar on your computer while you browsed the web. I wrote a simple little program in Visual Basic to move the mouse, browse sites, and click links. Wrote another program to reload the adbar if it stalled or crashed.
I started to give friends and family a 60/40 split to run my setup on their computers. This also paid referral bonuses on my account.
Ended up making 3 or 4k in total but at that age, I might as well have been Zuck. The internet used to be so much cooler when it was the wild west.
- weard_beard 3y agoAllAdvantage. I remember getting my 9.35$ check and my mom thought I was selling drugs or something. No one pays for drugs with a paper check MOM.
- yarrowy 3y agoThe days of free dialup internet with the advertising bar oh man
- lockhouse 3y agoI loved taking the AOL and MSN discs we received in the mail and using them for updating the browsers on our computer. Saved a ton of time on rural dial-up.