I was one of the first to join alladvantage (the first pay to surf toolbar) and quickly built up a nice referral base. It was 1998 I believe, anyway my first check was over $500.00 and for a couple of years I was making about $1500.00/month from them and another $1000.00/month from other pay to surf toolbars that sprung up.
Suckers then went belly up owing me and my wife (we each had an account) over 15 grand! Made excellent income every month just on our referrals. Hey, you might have been somewhere under us, as we were like in the lower 50 of joining. But the first income earned goes back to like 1993, building up a great downline in a online mlm company (probably the first to hit the net).
I cant remember when it was, but it was $136 from adsense, it took me two months to accumulate that at the time and i used to watch it every day haha
It was inevitable, good chance I was below you then I was in the low 100's. It was fun while it lasted.