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So, what would you do differently when you started if you had the ability to send yourself a letter into the past?
Obvious ones I think of
-Start Early, like 1990
-Pick a much better domain name to start with that has some SEO value
-Tell the professor there’s no future in online gaming and take his job
-Start Early, like 1990 (Too early, very little internet access for 99% of people, ultra slow dial up modems. Primitive graphics etc… Beam me back to 1998 again!)
-Pick a much better domain name to start with that has some SEO value
(we all could have been millionaires many times over had we done this and just picked up domains like slots.com, poker.com, gambling.com etc…)-Tell the professor there’s no future in online gaming and take his job (Are we going into the past now or the future? :tongue:)
@Professor 129078 wrote:
-Start Early, like 1990 (Too early, very little internet access for 99% of people, ultra slow dial up modems. Primitive graphics etc… Beam me back to 1998 again!)
-Pick a much better domain name to start with that has some SEO value
(we all could have been millionaires many times over had we done this and just picked up domains like slots.com, poker.com, gambling.com etc…)-Tell the professor there’s no future in online gaming and take his job (Are we going into the past now or the future? :tongue:)
Lets hope for all our sakes were talking in the past
i launched my first site in sept 1998, entered gaming in 2001.
I would go back to 1998, buy every targeted ad that i could on my creditcards and send all the traffic direct to the casinos/poker rooms. no websites. Just email and maybe an ad server. Had i done that, i’m confident i could have earned at least $15-20 million from online advertising 1998-2004, plus revshare until last fall.
It’s so much easier to make a good plan if you know the outcome in advance
please PM when the machine is ready. :hattip:
I would go back to 1995 and buy Broadcast.com
Forget the Mav’s I would try to push Davis off the Raiders.
rofl :santa2:
I’d have to ask my husband for the exact years, but we were online in the 80s when there was no internet really. We had a Radio Shack computer with a 1200 baud modem and had a pet care site online The Pet Board. There was no name registration, you just called yourself whatever you wanted. One person could logon at a time, it was connected to a normal phone line.
Websites were Bulletin Boards and they were sort of like message boards. The “sysop” could login when a visitor was online and chat with them.
The site was busy 24 hrs amazingly, people waited forever to get on, usually you got a busy signal. Visitors had to pay huge long distance phone rates.
Some kind of ferret community started to communicate there and they left a number of messages that rivals CAP. They would sign on, type two sentences and sign off, then came the next one. All about ferrets. 24 hours a day. We just watched in wonderment.
Then we had a guy sign on and leave messages about animal torture, upsetting everyone. So we called the police and they didn’t know what on earth we were talking about. They came out to the house to figure it out and ended up putting a trap on the phone and caught the guy but there was nothing to charge him with. They had to let him go but he never called again so all was good.
Then we wanted to get listed in the phonebook. They had no idea what we were talking about either. They came out to the house too to have a look. We wanted a new listing, Electronic Bulletin Boards. They kept saying: But we already have bulletin boards. (meaning the cork board you stick messages on). We did convince them to list us proper
