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It was a cold day in early 2003. I sitting here in Wales, listening to all the women playing harps in the distance (as they all do here in Wales) and I was starting to think there must be something more outside of all the sheep shagging, daffodil growing and leek soup making that I was doing day in day out.
I was on my way to the bakers for a loaf of bread on my pushbike when I saw a prestige car drive past with a sign in the window that said 'Earn £1,000's a week from home just like me. Please visit our website www.stuffenvelopeswithstuff.pro" and it got me thinking....if he could make £1,000's (and obviously doing well enough to pay for a Volvo 440) then I must investiage further.
I arrived at the bakers and asked him about this 'website' malarky and he said he thinks that it was "something that people in London do on a daily basis"...I was intrigued.
I cycled back home as fast as I could, determined to find out more about this 'internet' and 'website' invention, as it was all new to us folk in Wales.
I sent a telegram to an old friend in London asking him about this invention, which was to change my life. He told me to save up all my dole money and to come to London on the train and he would explain it all to me.
I had to save 4 weeks wages (giro's as they are called in Wales) to pay for the cost of the ticket to 'The big smoke' but sure enough I managed it. I arrived in London around 8 weeks later where my friend picked me up from the train station in something which he referred to as a Far rar ree.
He explained the ways how you could use my giro's to invest into .org.uk domain names and then sell them onto people in the future for a huge profit (but we needed something called Google to give them some love first)
So I listened to his advice and invested a few hundred pounds into some .org.uk domain names (which he obtained for me). I tried to tell him about the internet I had seen on the Volvo 440 - www.stuffenvelopeswithstuff.pro but he told me to stay away from anything ending with .pro
This baffled me, as it was obviously working for the person who was driving the Volvo, so why were .pro domains no good ? I had heard a rumour that a local lady called Joanna Page had been able to have this 'internet' installed into her cottage - needless to say I was very excited to be able to try it out for myself so I thought I would seduce her into letting me use her internet.
I dressed up in my best clobber and made my way to her cottage. I knocked the door and said that I was after a very big favour and I needed to use her internet to research something very important. She naturally obliged as everyone in Wales is used to being taken advantage of anyway, and let me in.
She explained to me that she had got the internet as she dreamed of becoming a famous actress and hitting the big time, and wanted to make some new online contacts. Anyway, I started to do some research on something called 'Excite' and I stumbled across .pro domains over and over again. These .pro domains all kept appearing on one website (acorn domains) time and time again in the appraisal and domains wanted section, with people telling the same person over and over again that they were worthless.
I stuck around as a lurker on Acorn domains for a few years and finally joined in 2007 when I realised that Google had started to show some love to the .org.uk domains I had invested in years before, and had started to rank them in the top 3 with just 1 line of content and a keyword stuffed title tag.
The rest is history - I now have lots of knowledge of domain names and own lots of premium names. One thing that still baffles me though, is shortly after I used Joanna's internet, she left the village and never returned again - I felt quite sorry for her as the next time I saw her, she was appearing with her boobs out in a small unknown film called 'Love Actually' which I think might have been some kind of soft porn film, but at least she seemed happy anyway. I just hope it wasn't me commenting "There is more to live than Wales" that pushed her away.
I was on my way to the bakers for a loaf of bread on my pushbike when I saw a prestige car drive past with a sign in the window that said 'Earn £1,000's a week from home just like me. Please visit our website www.stuffenvelopeswithstuff.pro" and it got me thinking....if he could make £1,000's (and obviously doing well enough to pay for a Volvo 440) then I must investiage further.
I arrived at the bakers and asked him about this 'website' malarky and he said he thinks that it was "something that people in London do on a daily basis"...I was intrigued.
I cycled back home as fast as I could, determined to find out more about this 'internet' and 'website' invention, as it was all new to us folk in Wales.
I sent a telegram to an old friend in London asking him about this invention, which was to change my life. He told me to save up all my dole money and to come to London on the train and he would explain it all to me.
I had to save 4 weeks wages (giro's as they are called in Wales) to pay for the cost of the ticket to 'The big smoke' but sure enough I managed it. I arrived in London around 8 weeks later where my friend picked me up from the train station in something which he referred to as a Far rar ree.
He explained the ways how you could use my giro's to invest into .org.uk domain names and then sell them onto people in the future for a huge profit (but we needed something called Google to give them some love first)
So I listened to his advice and invested a few hundred pounds into some .org.uk domain names (which he obtained for me). I tried to tell him about the internet I had seen on the Volvo 440 - www.stuffenvelopeswithstuff.pro but he told me to stay away from anything ending with .pro
This baffled me, as it was obviously working for the person who was driving the Volvo, so why were .pro domains no good ? I had heard a rumour that a local lady called Joanna Page had been able to have this 'internet' installed into her cottage - needless to say I was very excited to be able to try it out for myself so I thought I would seduce her into letting me use her internet.
I dressed up in my best clobber and made my way to her cottage. I knocked the door and said that I was after a very big favour and I needed to use her internet to research something very important. She naturally obliged as everyone in Wales is used to being taken advantage of anyway, and let me in.
She explained to me that she had got the internet as she dreamed of becoming a famous actress and hitting the big time, and wanted to make some new online contacts. Anyway, I started to do some research on something called 'Excite' and I stumbled across .pro domains over and over again. These .pro domains all kept appearing on one website (acorn domains) time and time again in the appraisal and domains wanted section, with people telling the same person over and over again that they were worthless.
I stuck around as a lurker on Acorn domains for a few years and finally joined in 2007 when I realised that Google had started to show some love to the .org.uk domains I had invested in years before, and had started to rank them in the top 3 with just 1 line of content and a keyword stuffed title tag.
The rest is history - I now have lots of knowledge of domain names and own lots of premium names. One thing that still baffles me though, is shortly after I used Joanna's internet, she left the village and never returned again - I felt quite sorry for her as the next time I saw her, she was appearing with her boobs out in a small unknown film called 'Love Actually' which I think might have been some kind of soft porn film, but at least she seemed happy anyway. I just hope it wasn't me commenting "There is more to live than Wales" that pushed her away.
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