Comments on: Early Memories of the World Wide Web

by: Frank

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:52:24 +0000

Adsense has a pay per view model, too; but that’s only if an advertiser chooses to run a campaign specifically on your website. Good if there is competition for banner space; really bad if there’s only one advertiser who is paying the minimum possible. This is currently happening on one of my websites and the results are poor. You can ban specific advertisers but I feel this time I will just hang on and see if there will be competition in the long run. Main source of income is affiliate programs anyway.

by: Nomadic Matt

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:06 +0000

ooo and commission junction pays per view not click????????

I have adense but that is pay per click….I’d love to get adware that is pay per click…..

Actually I need to look into this whole ad thing……. any advice?

by: Nomadic Matt

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:28:41 +0000

I used to like to pretend I could build websites…I remember having a geocities site in highschool. I don’t remember what it was about though. Something silly.

by: Will

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:20:23 +0000

I had been away from websites for years…A lot has changed since 1998 I think is the last time I did anything much. I had a couple…I was much younger so warez was really appealing to me and drew lots of traffic for the pay per impression advertisers. Back in those days there were TCL scripts that you could run on an eggdrop bot in an IRC channel that was dedicated to loading each other’s banners and generating “clicks”…good times!

Oh…I set up a site that ran on a server in my garage. It was specific to the decoding of satellite television signals - or the hardware/software to accomplish that and so my visitors came with cash. Made a lot of money off of that one though it was very short lived. I did that site with phpnuke which was THE cms of the day. When I decided to give websites another go, I went for phpnuke - bleh what happened? It used to seem so slick, now it’s cumbersome and the support is practically gone unless you’re building a site specific to gaming so I’ve had to learn a few new things err…still learning actually. WP wasn’t too tough, but I’m putting a couple of sites together with Joomla and to get the most out of that WOW it’s a lot to learn but I think in the end worth it.

Your description of first web sites reminds me of that episode of the simpsons when Homer builds a web site….it was funny. I went looking for some of my old sites the other day, just to see what kind of page rank they might have…didn’t find any.

by: Webjourneyman

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:18:46 +0000

The website that inspired my first plans for a website had THE KILLER (as in good) DOMAIN NAME: word.com.

Today it is owned by a dictionary but back then (´95-´99) it was a this ultra cool online publications with tons of interesting stuff to read and lots of it about sex and/or drugs. There are some fragments surviving on archive.org but not enough to give the total impression.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980121232903/http://word.com/index.html

Though it had great content it committed a then to be mortal sin in web design, lots of frames as can be seen by the archive.org salvage.

by: Suz

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:40 +0000

Ahhhh early web design! I think my first website was about that time - 1999 or 2000, I don’t remember quite which. I spent hours doing coding of HTML from scratch. Pain in the A$$$!!!! Rather ugly as well. I did manage to monitize it through Amazon partnerships but never got it to make any $.

Though, to be frank, those wern’t my ‘early web’ days. I still remember in 94/95 sitting for hours on the internet chatting with friends on AOL IM and surfing the web, which had just gone visual. Before that I remember reading my dad’s Compuserve listserves as early as the 80s.

Now, of course, I work online full-time as does much of my generation and there’s hardly anyone who blinks an eye at it. Although many people are mistified as to how I can make a full-time living doing it.