My story is a bit different. About a year and a half ago I got a phone call from Google New York. They said they looked at my site and asked me if I was interested in joining Adsense. First time I heard about them. I said I would give it a try .. glad I did... ;-)
i used to read fortune magazine about 18 months ago they had an article about adsense a guy in highschool had this cool site about cellphones with a lot of visitors and adsense on it and they said he was making 5k$ a month off it. so i thought : i should go into websites then a few months afterward a little nonevent event happened and i looked on the web to get some info about that non important thing. i only found bullshit sites, ie not easy to navigate, etc. so i thought : i could manage to do a site a least comparable to theirs.. and so i went
I had a multi-topic 100-plus-page hobby site since the 90s, and started noticing Ads by Google. I slapped an ad block on one page and made $8 the first day! I was hooked.