[ih] Porn on the net

[John Kristoff]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:12:59 -0700
Bob Purvy via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> So I know Usenet had its alt.sex.* groups forever, and I remember
> that in the *very* early days, "pornography" was the one monetization
> case that everyone could agree might work. Maybe the only one. When
> did you first hear of someone doing this for money?

There were BBSes before the commercialization of the Internet that did
this.  I'm not sure how they handled payments, but PC Board, a popular
BBS software package at the time, was commonly used for systems that
had large collections of files to download.

John