In message <3E21FF0B.3050703@cisco.com>, Eliot Lear writes: >If you are looking for the first site that spoke HTTP, then I don't >know. On the other hand, as we know there has been a history of >development surrounding Internet porn. First of all, there were the >various newsgroups, and the various (dis)assembly programs. One of >these was AUB and it dates back to around 1992. Another of which was >FSP, the UDP-based file sharing protocol written to get around TCP port >filters. That would be in the 1993 time frame. While to the best of my >knowledge IRC had no attachment to sex for its development, it in >combination with various hacker sites played a role in sites being >hacked and becoming warez and porn sites. > Google's archive has the first alt.sex posting as April 8, 1988. It's very rare that I have a work-related justification for searching alt.sex... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)