Route 66 is
often romanticized as the Mother Road inspiring many of us with a nostalgic
whimsy to see Route 66
as a link to our parents or grandparents, others feel the sense of
freedom that the road provided to those early travelers.
In
1926
Route 66
was thought of as the “super-highway,” representing unprecedented
freedom to travel across the American West Chicago to Los Angeles.
While most other East/West highways existing at the time followed a more linear
course, leaving out the rural communities, dependent upon transportation for
farm products and other goods.
The
federal government finally pledged to link small town U.S.A. with
metropolitan capitals in the summer of 1926 and designated the road as
Route 66.
More
than 200,000 people migrated to California to escape the Dust Bowl of the
Midwest, symbolizing the highway as the “road to opportunity.”
Probably more than any other American highway,
the
Mother Road
symbolized a
new positive outlook that spread through the Nation’s economic
consciousness. "It became," according to one admirer, "an icon
of free-spirited independence linking the United States across the Rocky
Mountain divide to the Pacific Ocean.
Extensive transportation infrastructures enabled commerce and created
wealth, and brought with them mass markets then for TVs, appliances, and
phones. These things eventually in turn produced a demand for the Internet,
today's "superhighway".
What TV became in the last half of the last century, what
the telephone and the paved road were to the early 20th century, so is the
Internet to the current generation. It is another grid now laid out across
the continents that enables mass markets. The same type of personality that
drove the Mother Road to a better life are also leading the way onto the
Internet today.
I started out on the internet slowly in 1994 with a website run by someone
else selling artwork I created. Finally I realized in the spring of '97 that the
site was not set up to sell. I registered a name and began to peck away not
knowing how to do what I knew had to be done. Since then I have had good
success with that original website and have added others. I expanded into
affiliate marketing four years ago only regretting I had not made the move
sooner. I am now earning a six figure income online. If you desire to, so can
you.
There is a lot of information available online on this subject, you have to
judge for yourself what is usable and what is not. My plan here is to lay it
out for anyone to get on board because there's plenty
of room to make money online.
Follow along and learn how you can capitalize on the internet today. If you
have that drive that possessed your predecessors then you are at the right
place at the right time.
"Life
is the experience!! Enjoy the ride!
