I agree that there was a lot of bad stuff back in the day. I remember Cal-Star was hit or miss and at $50 a tape the misses hurt a lot. Same for Harmony. For magazines, Tied and Tickled had some good layouts but again, quality could be spotty. There were other magazines and you had to be careful because you could get very similar photos in different magazines around the same time. When the very early internet came along there was a CompuServe group and then the newsgroups, alt.sex.fetish.tickling and alt.binaries.medie.erotica.tickling (or something like that). Both sites groups finally fell apart from flamers and spammers and then you saw the rise of private sites; some membership some not. There was the old TickleTown which was awesome. Another was swtickle and I remember one that had a Sultan theme but don't remember the name. TickleSpot came just when video producers were really starting to compete and the stuff they were putting out started to get a lot better. TJ Productions and Solefully Yours were good. Then Jeff came along with Magic Touch and the definition of "good" was COMPLETELY re-written, LOL!!! Magic Touch and Silver Cherry Productions were like the Cadillacs of material and I worked overtime to afford their tapes! As clips grew more popular and download speeds became reasonable everyone was putting out clips and there was a membership site called extremetickling that consolidated them. (Can you imagine paying $6 to Clips4Sale today and downloading anything you wanted???? That was extremetickling but with far less material.) TMF and TickleTheater eventually emerged as the dominant websites for material and there aren't as many personal or membership sites anymore (but there are some). I know I'm missing some really good ones (for example Tickle Horror, Femfeet, Tickling Paradise, French Tickling, and Bleufetish) but I don't remember exactly when they came in chronologically. As more sites came in the material definitely got better and the days of gambling $50 on a tape that may or may not be worth anything were gone.
If I goofed up the timeline or forgot any obvious ones don't yell, LOL!!!
Tom