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(4,199 posts)...I can tell you that crappy ASCII printouts on dot matrix printers of naked women were common back then. If you don't think that each new technical innovation in computing was quickly followed by people sharing porn, you're really naïve.
It is the volume of money spent on porn which makes technology viable in the marketplace.
The internet exists in its current form in order to provide the bandwidth necessary to stream porn. DSL and Cable modems became commercially viable because people were willing to pay a premium for fast access to porn. Dial-up modems ran at higher and higher baud rates so people could download crappy images of porn. Pay-per-view TV exists because of porn. Cable TV exists because of porn. VCRs exist because of porn. DVD players exist because of porn.
Back in the day when people had home movie cameras, you could buy 8mm porn. Or photo postcards. Or printed books. Or paintings. There was probably porn cave art.
Porn exists because humans like it. We have for millennia. You may find it shocking, but others enjoy it.
Your ability to *economically own* a computer with high speed access to the internet is 100% because of porn, whether you like it or not.