Domain squatting
Those were the days of Domain squatting where many bought the dot com domain names and then wait for anyone who is interested to buy it for a huge sum of money. My friend Steve was such an avid reader that he read a book on how to purchase domains and be a Millionaire. Yes, he was so convincing, and we put together some thousands of dollars and we started to purchase a pool of domains, each for 75USD and some hosting service. Those days we had to pay monthly to get it alive. We were so excited when Beer.com was sold for millions, then Business.com, then many others. LOL. Yes. Eventually, we did not make money but it was a good process of learning, about domain, domain service, registry, ICANN, hosting, email account setting, .. O eventually we even have our own office lease line servers for hosting email and websites. We experimented with online merchants too, where we learned about SQL, database, inventory, backend server for transactions, selling drawings perhaps. However, we d...