So, you caught some of the golden days of faucets. Nice!
Being there when freebitco.in was launched probably worked out great over time. It took me a while to join it, even if I saw it promoted everywhere. So yeah, I missed the first BIG wave.
To be fair, I did build a good amount of refs in different faucets with a top I promoted back in the day, but unfortunately, most of them turned out to be inactive or soon became inactive.