In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliot Lear writes:
>If you are looking for the first site that spoke HTTP, then I don't
>know. On the other hand, as we know there has been a history of
>development surrounding Internet porn. First of all, there were the
>various newsgroups, and the various (dis)assembly programs. One of
>these was AUB and it dates back to around 1992. Another of which was
>FSP, the UDP-based file sharing protocol written to get around TCP port
>filters. That would be in the 1993 time frame. While to the best of my
>knowledge IRC had no attachment to sex for its development, it in
>combination with various hacker sites played a role in sites being
>hacked and becoming warez and porn sites.
>
Google's archive has the first alt.sex posting as April 8, 1988.
It's very rare that I have a work-related justification for searching
alt.sex...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
