[ih] Porn on the net

[Bob Purvy]

thanks, everyone. Keep 'em coming.

To be more specific: I was at the Santa Fe IETF
<https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/22> in 1991. I'm planning to "repurpose"
Chris's experience for one of my characters who was there. The thought is,
"the Internet" wasn't yet on *everyone's* mind, but obviously some
forward-thinking individuals were onto it.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 12:47 PM Leo Vegoda <leo at vegoda.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 12:13, 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?
>
> The FT recently published a fairly deep investigation of money and
> porn in podcast form: Hot Money.
>
> Episode 4 deals with Rusty and Edie's BBS but I think they covered the
> whole scene from very early networking to almost today quite clearly.
>
> https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3244 and
> presumably all the places podcasts are published.
>