Let My People Go!
That's the caption on the clock on my wall. [pictured below]. It has been there since September 2001 and it stays there until the Ghosties reappear- this time for good.

New Here?
Ghostsurfers.com was the web domain for Ghostsurfers Intl. The domain name was sold by the people I gave my company to. I have now purchased ghost-surfers.com so I can tell the story of the original GhostSurfers.com. Don't get us confused with Ghostsurf - a software program that covers your tracks. We have nothing to do with that. And we are not associated with the punk band, Ghost Surfers, either. All those are new. And we don't have a team of lawyers here that is able to stop them from taking our name.
Uh, ... maybe later.
In the meantime, you are probably wondering how it is that people got paid to surf the web. Wouldn't it be nice if FaceBook paid you by the hour to share with your friends? Well, that is exactly what we did. You will notice that while FaceBook is running, there are advertisements on the right side of your page. That is how FaceBook makes some of their money. What we did, was we shared a portion of that revenue with our members. And the more friends you brought into the network, the greater your share. There were a few people who understood this back in 2000. That is why so many members joined so fast and Ghostsurfers.com became the leader in the Surf4Pay industry. But that was just the beginning of the story. Click here to learn more ...
Member Links Still Out There?!
On top of losing all my email correspondence and everything on my own computers, including all of the books I had written, I lost all of the corporate images during the hacking. The Russian programmers left their mark in the few files they let remain - not just on the server in Tallahassee, but also on my home computer. On the one hand I received emails asking for money for our contact data. On the other, they left a file called "russian.trojan" in the remains on my home computers. It was like leaving a fish in a newspaper, if you catch my drift. They had been led to believe, (incorrectly), that we had failed to pay for their programming.
In any event, not only did they delete the web site, but they deleted everything I had ever worked on - 11 books I had written, thousands of emails. (Does anyone out there remember those long emails I used to write?). In short, they very deliberately crippled me so I couldn't tell you what had happened or rebuild. So in thinking it might now be time to bring GhostSurfers up from the grave I had to go online to see if anyone had copied any of the Ghost Surfer images and get them back. Sure enough, even though the web site itself has been off line for more than seven years, there are still a number of member links pointing to Ghostsurfers.com member pages. And even though the pages themselves are long dead, a good many of our images were retrievable from the links pointing to them. The web remembers. And the ghosts are still out there. Here are some examples ...
Julsha's Cafe Press Site - Nice designs Julsha! Hope you made some sales!
Epinion Review - 3 1/2 checks on sixteen epinions. Not shabby.
Kirkland84 on Fortune City - Good plug! Though I recommend you look at the Patent App. to see what we were really about.
SpiritRider Sig File - Thanks for the promo SpiritRider!
Network54 Forum - We are ghosties. And we were killed. But a remnant is still there. Do you like hunting for ghosts? Here is a discussion of the GhostSurfer Game dating to Feb., 2001. For more info on the Ghostsurfer Game read the Patent App. This links to a third-party member discussion forum that never got deleted.
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