i think the role of porn in the development of the internet and e commerce is woefully underestimated and unappreciated. i have been around the interwebs for a while..altho not as much as some of the other oldies...and let me tell you, if porn hadnt been the main draw to the net, there would have been none of the foundational work done for privacy, credit card processing, internet marketing, pop up ads, search engines...its super ironic that stripe and paypal et al are turning their backs to the porn industry.
[..]In other words, sex not only sells, it basically invented new ways of selling.
The classic example is Danni Ashe, a pornstar who calls herself a ‘geek with big breasts.” She launched a softcore porn website (epically titled “Hard Drive”) in the 1990s that quickly became the busiest site on the internet.
$8 million and 45 employees later, she had built one of the first ecommerce empires. Pornographers like Danni pioneered payment and security solutions that laid (pun intended) the foundations for Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and the broader commercialization of the world wide web.
Let’s take a deeper look at the ecommerce technologies brought to us, in part, by porn.[..]
and then step back and marvel before you kneel to the gods of porn as you read the above link.. for giving us the interwebs.
the titillation aside, the porn industry is one of the oldest and the main pillars of the internet. this: https://www.plytix.com/blog/how-internet-porn-paved-the-way-...
[..]In other words, sex not only sells, it basically invented new ways of selling.
The classic example is Danni Ashe, a pornstar who calls herself a ‘geek with big breasts.” She launched a softcore porn website (epically titled “Hard Drive”) in the 1990s that quickly became the busiest site on the internet.
$8 million and 45 employees later, she had built one of the first ecommerce empires. Pornographers like Danni pioneered payment and security solutions that laid (pun intended) the foundations for Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and the broader commercialization of the world wide web.
Let’s take a deeper look at the ecommerce technologies brought to us, in part, by porn.[..]
and then step back and marvel before you kneel to the gods of porn as you read the above link.. for giving us the interwebs.