Every internet marketer treasures the moment of hist first few bucks made online. Mine was like 8 years ago when I made like $100 in one single day with a game website.
It was back when Google Ads really used to mean something and they were not that restrictive with placements/clicks etc.
It was a viral game which awarded a prize randomly to those who sign-up and share the contest on Yahoo Messenger.
I had a piece of JavaScript installed in my website which could automatically send a message to all the contacts in the Messenger list.
It was so crazy that I drove 40K visitors to my website which crashed after one day. I was forced to upgrade to a dedicated server if I wanted to continue, but I didn't had the cash to pay for it so I dropped the idea :)
Anyway, it was such a break trough for me because I then knew that I can make money online and I never stopped testing and doing different stuff ever since.
What was your first experience with making money online? What did you do and when?