[ih] Porn on the net

[John Day]

Dave,

Not porn but since you brought it up.

Perhaps you remember better than I do.  In the very early ARPANET, probably before 1974 or 5. There were a number of ‘extra’ well-known sockets. (That went away when the map would no longer fit on one sheet of paper. So very early.)  One at NMC would print a map of the ARPANET and the up or down status of the hosts. There was a one-liner socket at BBN. (I never did understand the one-liner, “There goes a big red fire engine”) I think one that returned Boston weather.

Do your remember any of the others?

John

> On Sep 19, 2022, at 15:30, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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