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He filed and received a host of patents, including one for the pop- under ad (causing MSNBC, in 2007, to misidentify him as the “pop-up prince”). From there, he leapt into the then-nascent online advertising market, first creating banner ads and then rotation scripts, he says. And with every click and amateur photo, they fueled the growth of the web itself.Īs the web evolved, Shuster learned more about the platform’s idiosyncrasies, like how he could make more money advertising for his competitors than they could selling their own product. Racy content drove that site’s growth as users accessed adult pictures and video anonymously, online. A little more than a year later, the site generated $10 million in monthly revenue. In 1995, Shuster and his personal trainer invested $700 to launch, a search engine for adult content that made money by directing traffic to individual porn sites. Related: Will Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Learn With Virtual Reality? A racy startīrian Shuster is an online veteran, one who started his career back in the mid-90s when the web was something of an X-rated Wild West. And this preview is brought to you from a very unlikely source: adult entertainment pioneer Brian Shuster.
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It’s a preview of what’s possible in online education, a sector that has yet to tap into its promise. More specifically, welcome to a virtual representation of Harlem, as it existed in the 1920s, built to scale on the virtual reality platform Utherverse (similar to the better-known Second Life). Welcome to Harlem at the height of its renaissance.