A Brief History of Sex on the Internet | WIRED
IT WAS HARD to envision its enormity.At the Webs inception, few outside the tech world realized it would be seen as one of the signal events in computer science. Or that it would ignite an information revolution. Or that it would make it possible for an individual or a group or a government to communicate with billions.Even fewer foresaw that the Web would become the largest wank-off machine in creation. Though there were inklings.Excerpted from The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido, by David Friend GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHINGPeople browsing for sexual content, like those searching for illicit love, guarded their anonymity and frequented hard-to-find addresses, often at night.
