Interesting question @acesontop!

I first became a monetized content creator in 1999, on a site named epinions which was — to the best of my knowledge — the first venue online to try a micropayments strategy to reward its content creators for their efforts... in this case, product reviews. This may sound crazy by today's standards, but we were paid THIRTY CENTS per page view! In case that sounds crazy, keep in mind that getting someone to look at a web page in 1999 took a good bit of effort, and just getting 20 people to read your stuff was a major victory!

Subsequently, I have been part of a little more than 50 sites that rewarded creators for content... pretty much all of them based on the ad revenue model supplemented with revenue from affiliate links via amazon, eBay and others.

Many you are unlikely to ever have heard of, a few like Squidoo and HubPages were huge well funded operations that both cracked the top-100 worldwide rankings on Alexa.

Blockchain/crypto based venues are showing themselves to have considerably more staying power, primarily because there is no "company" to eventually run out of money to pay contributors. Pretty much ALL venues I've been part of have failed (HubPages is still limping along, a shadow of its former self) primarily at the hands of thousands of people trying to scam/milk the system of every cent they could... without really contributing anything. That money-for-nothing greed has not changed...

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