just to be clear - I was thinking of porn sites using the HTTP protocol for
access.
Best so far: Paul Hoffman thinks that the first one was called Adult
Action, and probably predated the official Mosaic release. But that search
term is too general for the Internet of today (8240 hits
By June and July of 1994 people were trying
adult http sites. I'm afraid it's not clear how long
before this these sites actually existed.
I can tell you that there were very few adult sites
in 1994. By 1996 the formula and format for such
sites was pretty well fixed and that same formula
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why the creation of the first porn site is a
depressing moment I'm not sure.
A few years ago I found myself wondering why most commercial websites
are so garish, flashy, fragmented, and awkward to navigate. I came to
the conclusion that they'd all taken their stylistic
Franck Martin wrote:
[..]
An interesting subject for a thesis:
The Porn and The Internet.
Sub-titled The Beauties and The Beasts ?
cheers,
gja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the first couple years of the web, adult sites financed it's
development. In 1997 and 1998 90% of commerce on the web was adult
related.
The first few years of the web were financed by government funded
research laboratories--initially CERN in
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
I just wonder: does anyone know/remember when the first Web porn site
came online?
I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The
first use for any new communications technology is sex).
Anyone remember the day when someone found a
An interesting subject for a thesis:
The Porn and The Internet.
Sub-titled The Beauties and The Beasts ?
Watch it. One fuzzball joke and I am outta here.
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:51:51 GMT, Lloyd Wood said:
Simon Spero wrote:
I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The
first use for any new communications technology is sex).
any SUCCESSFUL communications technology, surely?
This must mean that 3G phones are
I have a vague recollection that CU-SeeMe was used for porn in late
1993. We were so innocent, we thought people would use it for
conferencing.
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 07:51, Lloyd Wood wrote:
Simon Spero wrote:
I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The
first use for any new communications technology is sex).
any SUCCESSFUL communications technology, surely?
Well before that, the French had the
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Scott W Brim wrote:
I have a vague recollection that CU-SeeMe was used for porn in late
1993. We were so innocent, we thought people would use it for
conferencing.
Speaking of technologies, has porn ever been multicast? Could have been a
killer application in those
g'day,
There was also a certain amount of piggybacking onto legitimate open FTP
sites to deliver porn going on for a while that predated the web by
years.
Back in those more innocent days some folks actually left their incoming
FTP directories open and apparently there arose an on-demand file
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
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g'day,
Franck Martin wrote:
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