Totally Academic, Not Prurient, Look at the Internet and the Adult Industry
Surprise, surprise - there is a single adult site among the top 10 busiest sites on the Internet. Pornhub is number 11.
Even the most devout Sunday School teacher has the porn industry to thank for a whole basket of technology:
- Video streaming (long before YouTube)
- Credit card transactions and other e-commerce ideas
- The advent of VCRs and the death of Betamax after Sony banned porn
- Bandwidth expansion
- Advances in video camera technology
From the proliferation of adult images on usenet to some of today's most visited websites , porn has been a driving force of innovation for over 30 years. You don't have to look at a single adult-oriented image to learn a bit about this phenomenon.
A Brief History of Porn on the Internet | WIRED
Chart: How Much of the Internet Consists of Porn? | Statista
Value of the porn websites industry in the U.S. 2023 | Statista
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