Today I am taking a break from the serious posts and reflecting on the past. In case you are unaware, for an entire decade I owned escort services in Orlando, Florida, until the state harassed me out of business and then later, after I closed the services, arrested me on racketeering and conspiracy charges. The website changed over the years, and actually began as Abra-Cadabra Orlando Escorts. Back then (late 1993) the domain name was just a page on the ISP's domain and had a character that reminded one of tinkerbell sitting in a champagne glass waving a wand in the air as magic dust appeared across the screen. When I renamed it Valentine's, the theme forever after was hearts. By then the domain was www.escortorl.com. It was one of the top 100 websites on the internet for years and was named a Net Guide Gold site. It was at the top of search engine lists in all keywords that pertained.
These are screenshots of the website in 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2001 - in order. The website is forever archived on the Internet Archive and can be found by typing the domain name in the Way Back Machine. Sadly, the Internet Archive didn't exist until 1996 when Alexa, an Amazon company, began its massive archiving of websites with the goal of creating a library. The website is a part of internet history. Indeed, the world has changed since the days of the wild west era of the internet.
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