just to be clear - I was thinking of porn sites using the HTTP protocol for
access.
Best so far: Paul Hoffman thinks that the first one was called "Adult
Action", and probably predated the official Mosaic release. But that search
term is too general for the Internet of today (8240 hits.... sigh...)
Thanks to all who responded!
Harald
--On mandag, januar 13, 2003 10:53:03 +0100 jfcm <info(_at_)utel(_dot_)net>
wrote:
At 17:03 12/01/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Despite having lived through much recent history, I've forgotten a lot
of it....
I just wonder: does anyone know/remember when the first Web porn site
came online?
Wondering whether it was before or after the first official release of
Mosaic....
Obviously depends on what you mean "on-line".
1. as Dave said there were sex oriented "areas" on many computers.
2. I suppose the first commercial sex sites were on Minitel.
3. This means that technically they were on-line from the Internet legal
perspective when it interconnected the public nets (84). Actually a few
Internet private gateways existed before and some Intelmatics tests were
probably carried in the USA as early as 1982, with protocol conversion. I
would be surprised that no one test connected them from ARPANET. When
people tested from abroad, I do not know why, they always did it with a
porn site. 4.UK Universities also shared into Prestel and some where on
the Internet (you should inquire there. They had a leading data brokering
firm that "on-line", I Oxford (?) I think). I do not know about Paris
University, but we can investigate. jfc