When I was 12 or 13 (dont remember) I owned a 400 member forum, back then I took it for granted had no idea that if I put more effort into it it could have became a huge success. About 1-2 years later I realised my biggest mistake was going with invisionfree, because I could not move the database to a private server. In the end the site got hacked or something and yeah....kind of annoyed now, might have sold it for like 200 bucks or so. It was my first website , www.abysel.com lol. anyway, thanks. Pr0xy.
Erm ok. Don't get the point of your post Thats good though. I was just designing sites back then (which I thought were good at the time lol) let alone having a 400 member forum!
Dude, the exact same thing happened to me like a year ago! I was a bit older then you (yes, I'm under 18 ), and started an InvisionFree forum. It grew to about 2000 members, over 30000 posts and hundred thousand impressions a month! I made a smart decision and paid IF for a transfer to IPB though, and then the forum just blew up. I was making hundreds of dollars a month, but then all of a sudden, the host that I was on, which a friend was hosting my site on, just stopped running. My forum went down for about a month, and then I decided to turn my InvisionFree forum back online again. Now I know never to trust free hosts or let someone else host my site for me... *sigh* In the end, I couldn't even sell my IPB forum because all the databases/files were lost with the host.
Yeah I once owned a gaming website/forum that got up to a PR 5 w/ pretty decent traffic when I first started. I didn't realize that PR 5's were pretty good and I let the site go down the tubes. I lost interest in it and it lost most of its traffic.
I have a computer forum, got up to a PR of 6, I had a friend host it with his company, I was getting around 5,000 uniques a day when he started having server issues. The site was down for 3 months. That was a little over a year ago, we still have not recovered. I too was also making over $300 a month from adsense, now I'm making 1/10 of that.
I started off with a forum myself when i was around 15. I used to run it by using my own comp as a server so not only it was slow and buggy, i also had to keep it running 24/7 (in my bedroom). One morning i woke up with a headache, found the fan too annoying and killed the whole thing. I had over 2k members and 40k posts. Did not really care about it back in the days. Could have been big by now as well.
When I was 13 .. I have my own personal site n other sites lol...but no commercial site and no site for earning purpose only for hobby i made them
When I was 13 I used to dial into Bulletin Boards for fun.... It's crazy how much things have changed. Bulletin boards that weren't local cost a lot of money.
When I was thirteen I had to put cassette tapes into my computer and wait 20 minutes for a shitty game to load.
Things have changed a lot in the last 10 years. I think I was about 14 when my dad actually bought his first computer with internet connection. Before that I didn't even know what the internet was. Now i spend all my time on the net
when i was thirteen . the computers at school were the only ones availible to me and we had to insert a floppy disk into them that was about 12 inches square lol , its amazing how things change , i now have a 2 gig memory card the size of a postage stamp in my bloody camera