Pornography is a business of billions of dollars, and today anyone who has access to the Internet can consume this type of content for free. There are people who think pornography is harmful.
The Contribution of Pornography to the Development of Internet and Popular Technologies Today
These people do not know, perhaps, the benefits this industry has brought. The “The Sex Effect” book, which analyzes the links between sex and culture, presents the technologies and methods of doing business online through pornography. The pornstars like Kimber James really brings out the best effects for the same now.
- This industry constantly innovates and adopts the latest technologies, such as virtual reality or augmented reality. For example, a site has launched the world’s first adult holographic service, but also a GoPro-based camera system that allows actresses and actors to stream live from anywhere in the world, even from underwater.
- One of the world’s first e-commerce sites launched in the 1990s was Hard Drive. It offered customers access to contracost soft porn content. For two years was the most visited site on the internet. How were payments made? Richard Gordon founded Electronic Card Systems, which developed the first online payment system.
Where did the technology first be implemented?
You guessed on some porn sites. Gordon became much richer after a sex tape with Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee appeared in 1997. Internals have struggled to pay with the card to see the video, and Electronic Card Systems revenue, which charged a fee, increased substantially. Now The sites like pink-sexy offering the pleasures.
First video streaming technology online
Many advertising formats and e-commerce systems originated in the porn sites. They have constantly sought ways to monetize the audience attracted by the free content offered. For example, platforms such as Twitch or Facebook Live are the survivors of adult services in the 1990s. In 1994, the Dutch company Red Light District developed the first video streaming system for the Internet, which led to video chat and later platforms such as Netflix or Hulu.
