-----Original Message-----
From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb(_at_)research(_dot_)att(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2003 1:38
To: Eliot Lear
Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet
history.....
In message <3E21FF0B(_dot_)3050703(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>, Eliot Lear writes:
If you are looking for the first site that spoke HTTP, then I don't
know. On the other hand, as we know there has been a history of
development surrounding Internet porn. First of all, there were the
various newsgroups, and the various (dis)assembly programs. One of
these was AUB and it dates back to around 1992. Another of
which was
FSP, the UDP-based file sharing protocol written to get
around TCP port
filters. That would be in the 1993 time frame. While to
the best of my
knowledge IRC had no attachment to sex for its development, it in
combination with various hacker sites played a role in sites being
hacked and becoming warez and porn sites.
Google's archive has the first alt.sex posting as April 8, 1988.
It's very rare that I have a work-related justification for searching
alt.sex...
An interesting subject for a thesis:
The Porn and The Internet.
You think I can apply for a grant to the NSF?