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Interesting. How were you holding up the bandwidth costs on the gaming site without ads? Donations? Are you allowed to say the domain? Although it looks like
by brador 14y ago
Interesting. How were you holding up the bandwidth costs on the gaming site without ads? Donations? Are you allowed to say the domain?
Although it looks like any idiot could have made money back then, and relative to today I would agree, their is some survivor bias in play when talking to those who made it back then. It wasn't that easy.
Lastly, any examples of those half assed ideas that hit big? Even the niches if you can't name particulars. I'd argue the chances of success in a single field were much higher back then, but the breadth of opportunities and ease of getting started is higher in the modern day. Domain and cloud server for $20 and you're in the game.
- TallboyOne 14y agoMy site is long long gone. I think about a year ago I tried to find anything related to it and all I found was a gif logo I made hosted somewhere. I can't even find it on my harddrive anymore.. so who knows maybe my site is 100% vanished into the ether.. maybe theres a copy of it somewhere in a dark corner of the world on a dusty unix box, but who knows. And yes I'm probably biased, but at least if I would have tried back then and failed -- I would have had lessons to learn from and would still be better off. Without never having tried during those early golden years though I just feel like a fool. As for examples of other ideas... I know a few domainers who bought up a whole slew of domain names back then and now are sitting on a fortune. Look at any affiliate marketer that is well known and chances are they started during that period when you could keyword stuff, game SEO extremely easily, buy ads on a site and making a fortune, etc. Lots of blood sweat and tears is required with online marketing (which is why I no longer pursue it), but compared to now, back then was a cakewalk.