By June and July of 1994 people were trying
adult http sites. I'm afraid it's not clear how long
before this these sites actually existed.
I can tell you that there were very few adult sites
in 1994. By 1996 the formula and format for such
sites was pretty well fixed and that same formula
and format is still used on 99% of sites today.
Why the creation of the first porn site is a
depressing moment I'm not sure. In the first
couple years of the web, adult sites financed it's
development. In 1997 and 1998 90% of commerce
on the web was adult related. Within two years
of the first nudie pic being served via http the
adult operators had developed workable streaming
video. A year later, in 1997, we installed the first
live video with audio streaming from a Dallas office.
Adult operators also developed technologies such
as digital watermarking, the pay per click advertising
model, and usable http payment processing gateways
long before these technologies were adopted by
mainstream companies. One of the biggest things to
make the web the commercially attractive was efficient
online payment processing. The first http 3rd party
payment processing service was started in March
of 1995 by my friend Laith Alsarraf. It would be
another TWO YEARS before mainstream sites had
a comparable online processor.
Porn sites filtered:
Date: 1994-07-08 18:37:06 PST
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-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1994&as_maxd=13&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=1994
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:04:16 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand said:
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
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