Folks, In the early '70s, an ARPA database research company, called Computer Corporation of America (CCA) had a service that allowed you to make a telnet connection to a special port. It would spit out a randomly-selected limerick and then close the connection. Almost all the limericks were filthy enough to surprise hardened limerick afficionados. d/ ps. If you submitted 3 new limericks that they added to the database, you would get a copy of the entire set. Sunday, January 12, 2003, 3:49:31 PM, you wrote: Eliot> If you are looking for the first site that spoke HTTP, then I don't Eliot> know. On the other hand, as we know there has been a history of Eliot> development surrounding Internet porn. First of all, there were the Eliot> various newsgroups, and the various (dis)assembly programs. One of Eliot> these was AUB and it dates back to around 1992. d/ -- Dave <mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> t +1.408.246.8253; f +1.408.850.1850