[ih] Porn on the net

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Mon Sep 19 12:30:06 PDT 2022


On 9/19/2022 12:12 PM, Bob Purvy via Internet-history 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 was a dirty limmerick service on the Arpanet from /very/ early.  
The Datacomputer folk.  Send them 3 submissions that they used and 
they'd send you a copy of the entire database.

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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