[ih] Porn on the net

[Toerless Eckert]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 03:03:43PM +1200, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> On 20-Sep-22 14:09, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> > It appears that Dave Taht via Internet-history <dave.taht at gmail.com> said:
> > > Prior to the advent of the vcr, where would porn on the arpanet have come
> > > from? Scanners? 8mm films? ASCII art?
> > 
> > There was certainly ASCII art. I recall one of a nude woman with
> > strategically placed close parens.
> 
> That of course started as EBCDIC art on IBM line printers, or earlier.
> I suspect that scurrilous material was available for sending long before
> there was any network to send it on.
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/i-fJcVXkCLU/m/VFBYHdMuhdMJ

Define "network to send it on".

When i was serving in the navy in the 80th, i think
i saw the tailend of ASCII (nude) "art" on teletypewriters, stored on (i guess) ITA 2
alphabet punched tape and sent accordingly over the radio "network".
Luckily, there was already end-to-end encryption for "privacy protection" back then ;-)

19th century seems to have been uninspired though, this thing starte later
than i would have guessed:

https://www.bullfrag.com/remembering-the-mythical-ascii-art-of-the-90s-and-2000s/

"As stated in the book Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology we owe it to the butterfly created by Flora FF Stacey on a typewriter back in 1898."

Cheers
    Toerless

>      Brian
> 
> > 
> > I don't remember many details but there were also FTP servers where
> > people swapped naughty GIFs, mostly scans from magazines. The picture
> > section of a server at a university disappeared one day, replaced by a
> > note saying that they'd put the material back if someone could explain
> > what its educational purpose was.
> > 
> > Early on it was all just single images. Video was too big for dialup
> > connections, and it took a while for people to build up libraries
> > of MPEGs and connections fast enough to download or stream them.
> > 
> > R's,
> > John
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