[ih] Porn on the net

[Robert Stanford]

Apparently before all that we had "EDITH" on the IBM1401.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtlrITxB5qg



On 20/9/22 05:46, Leo Vegoda via Internet-history 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.