April 1956, in a business opportunity magazine, Specialty Salesman & Business Opportunities, I discover, Mail Order business. A magazine that my father, sold in his grocery store.
Mail Order, Sears, Roebuck and Co sold houses by mail order.
What drew my attention, a business from my home.
No morning traffic, choose my work hours, start up on a low budget.
What to sell, lucky in the business opportunity magazine, an ad about Long Life Light Bulbs. Put an ad in the local newspaper, a week later, my first order, I was in the Mail Order Business.
More luck, I met my future wife, who was great at creating craft, from jewelry, knit wear, baby clothing.
From 1956 till April 1994, Sears, gave me an idea, that I wouldn't change for any business in the world.
Till, April 1994, in the same magazine, Salesman & Business Opportunities, 38 years later, I discover, The Internet.
What is the Internet. An ad in the Salesman & Business Opportunities mag.
Send $98.00, for information. The best money I have ever spend.
For the next 32 years, I sure found out what is the Internet.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, many around today did not excise in 1994.
Search Engines, WebCrawler, AltaVista, Lycos, and Infoseek let website owners submit new pages to the Infoseek index in real time. Build a web page, upload to Infoseek, 3 to 5 minutes your website was in their search engine, sixth page, take down, redo the keywords, till your webpage was on page one. The good old days.