> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@research.att.com] > Sent: Monday, 13 January 2003 1:38 > To: Eliot Lear > Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet > history..... > > > 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... > An interesting subject for a thesis: The Porn and The Internet. You think I can apply for a grant to the NSF?