[ih] Porn on the net

[Dave Taht]

Prior to the advent of the vcr, where would porn on the arpanet have come
from? Scanners? 8mm films? ASCII art?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 1:04 PM Bob Purvy via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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