i joined the Petter Hegre team in 2002 when he moved to Portugal and formed a web team. before that i built the first cms for the Ford service network (manuals and catalogs). the Ford site sucked but it got me recruited out of the states and away from my first wife.
our team at Hegre converted his coffee table books into a website that earned several million its first year.
i left after a year (visa issues) but his site is still live:
https://www.hegre.com/
when i got back to the states i lived on a mountain in WV and built some small niche sites. i built them in a couple days and launched them fast. that's where plsureking comes from. the company was called Pleasure King Studios
here's one example we launched right before spring break and it made $5k its first weekend. freshman spring break:
i only mention it as an example at how fucking easy it was to make money during the online porn gold rush. shit design, shit content, pretty shitty marketing (tgps!), and ccbill approval was easy. $20-30k a month was light effort.
my biz partner died so i closed the sites and did some corporate work for a couple years in DC.
then Matt's Models recruited me to rebuild and manage his site. i did that familiar flag in the corner redesign and built a cms for it.
early days Matt.
me working hard.
here's a screenshot from the 2006 rebuild.
Matt's site shut down in 2008 with the housing market crash. he tried to revive it a couple years ago but i think he realized he owed too many affiliates and staff money.
after Matt's site closed i moved to Thailand and built PornCMS.
the only old school notable site we built on the cms back before 2009 was Fantasy One. their content goes back to the 80s with Becky LeBeau. they shot most of the early Playboy models (and still do).
that site is still up on the cms:
https://www.fantasyone.com/
ya i know, this is too much boring shit about me. i hate talking about myself, but it seemed like a good way to put the history of these sites on a timeline. these three producers were important names in early porn.
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