Time Machine

[Tyler]

Imagine if you were suddenly, for some reason, transported back 10 years ago knowing what you do about the Internet now.

What would you do?

The year is 1997 and the World Wide Web is brand new and very experimental still. Remember that things such as domain and hosting fees were much more expensive than they are now, and that even Internet Access was expensive, and dial-up.

Try to be realistic.. don't just say you'd make YouTube, as that is a big undertaking, and I'm not even sure Flash was invented yet. And of course, nobody would be able to handle that amount of bandwidth for videos.

Personally I'd work a part-time or full-time job and purchase as many premium domains as I could. Within a day I think I could probably purchase 10 domains that would in today's dollars be worth at least 5-million dollars. But domains were like $70 a year back then, which is why I'd need a part-time or full-time job to handle this.

I guess I'd also invest in Microsoft... but domains would be the easiest and surest way to take advantage of the time shift!

What about you?

[Jean Costa]

I would also say that I would have gotten into domain purchasing. I would also try to start a website, and would have bought dictionary.com

*If we only knew* back in the day hehe.

[ebittner]

I have to say that I would go the domain route too.
On top of that I would drive right into Affiliate marketing, if I had started back then who knows where I would be right now in terms of income.

[Trusttec]

I would get a full time job and buy as many premium domians as I could I would also buy as much microsoft and google stock as I could.

With my stock going up and up and I would develop some of the premium domains and sell them for some good money and sell them when the bubble bursts and buy them back for half price sort of like the guy at wrevenue.com did.

With all my revenue I would continue to reinvest. Anyways thats what I would do so now I have to figure out what I should do so in 10 years I dont have to think 10 years ago I should have done this....

[profitline]

I would invest all my money and mortgage my house just to get as many google shares as i can.

[trigatch4]

Domains... easily.

I would also build massive content sites. Imagine if you had some of the largest sites on the net and the pages had been indexed since 1997 and was just accruing backlink after backlink. I call that MONEY. Although with the money you could make from domains, there may really not be a need to work or do anything.