How long are you in Adult Internet business?

[Bishop]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Nov 16 2003, 03:33 AM

Off the top of my head, the two biggies you missed are TBBS and MajorBBS (Galacticomm).

TBBS I'm having a hard time remembering.. MajorBBS I do remember.. wow this is a history lesson.

I remembering having to make long distant phone calls because I couldn't find any boards in Dallas. Eventually they did catch on..My first bbs was only online at night because I didn't have an extra phone line.. haha.. I used my parents house line in the mid 80's. Up from 10:00pm - 8:00am.. seems insane now.

A friend and I wanted to start up a big bbs in what must have been 1990. We came to the conclusion that people would pay for porn online and there wasn't alot of competition for that sort of mega bbs in Dallas/Fort Worth. We didn't have the money to do it back then.. all the computers, phone lines, and modems it would have taken put it out of reach. I thought porn was the place to make money back before the compuserve, prodigy, and ultimately the internet became the hot ticket.

It would have been cool to get into that back then with a big bbs based porn site but I think I would have lost my ass on that project. The bbs' didn't have long enough to live though I didn't realize it at the time. I forgot about trying to make money with porn till 97. Then I started down the path I had wanted to go down in 90 all over again. This time it worked... the internet hasn't been replaced by the next best thing like the bbs did.

To think.... this use to be what porn was...

http://artscene.textfiles.com/asciiart/vicki.body