Originally posted by Chewbacca:
U will be surprised , its porn which caused the growth and boom of the internet in the 90s.Then the invention of Mp3 further boosted it.
reason why its cause Porn gives a reason for ppl to surf the internet regularly.
Just imagine, if there was no porn, the internet would just be another public access information archive.
this is a widely acknowledged fact - that the forefront of progress, commercialism and technology on the net was driven, and still is, by pornography, ways of delivery, and ways of paying for it.
mp3 was pretty late - i was using mp1 and mp2 compression for music back in the mid 90s.
the mid 90s was when the provider network, at that stage only a couple of them were commercial [compuserve for example], was forced to let go, forced to admit that commerce and porn were now the drivers behind the internet and the world wide web [which itself only came into being in 1993] and that they could no longer hold back the reigns of.. capitalism [i guess] ..
the reigns were handed over to the commercial companies and these now effectively run the 'net.
you still get the stall sellers peddling porn though - its just VCD's and DVD's, and half of them were sourced via the internet..
the old ways of getting porn over the internet before the world wide web are still prevalent though, its just faster now, and easier to upload.
peer to peer networks made it easier for everything to be shared..legal and otherwise.
but at the end of the day, its still porn and that hasnt changed.