The 12 ways that the Internet changed porn
If something has served the exponential growth of the Internet in recent years has been the uncontrolled and excessive use of pornography. Possibly the World Wide Web should consider a monument to pornographic websites. He has been in specialized computer magazine PC World that has made a study and has listed the 12 ways porn has changed the World Wide Web. In a manner much like porn helped develop other forms of domestic consumption as cable TV, Beta video formats, VHS and now with HD-DVD. The adult entertainment industry online has a lot to thank the porn genre. Although the porn industry is not happy for the same reasons. Here's why:
A. - Online payments: In the mid-nineties, Richard Gordon created a form of payment to objectionable sites. While big box could order checks, Gordon made a fortune on commission with sites offering video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. In 1999, it spent $ 1.3 trillion in pornography on the Net, 8 per cent. Six years later this figure grew to 2.7 trillion US4.
2. - The Spam. The sex industry did not invent it, but boy does it exploded and proved it could be profitable. In the late onventa receive emails suggesting it was fashionable, but when others realized they could do the same numbers of unwanted emails for a long shot. Today, this pest is more controlled.
3. - Streaming: Before the flood the network with YouTube videos, and X sites were involved in a while. Repeating it over and over again, without requiring plug-ins. Without the programmers trying to perfect this method 28.8kbps modem via telephone, today would be unthinkable that the big chains are posting clips as Espno or CNN, with the latest news.
4. - Malware: Malicious code found a niche among porn sites featuring photo galleries or download the latest video codecs, full of Trojans. Today those tactics are not limited to pages "healthy" but are spread across the Internet
5. - Chat: Interaction in full. A user could ask someone to do what he asked. So he took the video chat porn and her cousin next to be born, the videoconference. Thousands of women took just a camera and a server to contact potential customers.
6. - Pop-Ups: Once inside it was hard to leave. It found thousands of visitors, whose computer was invaded by new pop-up windows invite click here. The popups were so unpleasant that kept appearing was once the main site.
7. - Broadband: Penthouse was the first magazine iofrecía Internet connection speed to 2,400 MB. At the time, were the fastest to surf the Web and receive the latest news from the other side of pornography bolder on paper. The promotion of erotic images at high speed could have generated the same in other portals seeking to optimize their services.
8. - Intrusive Attacks: porn sites were very aggressive in creating methods to change the preferences in the user's computer. Such were able to self settle as the home page or publish shortcut icons on the desktop. Everything to get more traffic to those sites and take a slice of commission.
9. - Traffic Optimization: Before the storming or blogs that Google Adsense is met, content sites X and were masters at making money online. They were the first public share models generate and optimize the traffic they generated.
10. - The theft of domains: The case of Sex.com was emblematic. A hacker was able to register your site name, which actually belonged to others. The trial continues, even today, even though the original owners were restored to their precious domain.
11. - Mobile 3G: It is said that pornography pocket is the last frontier. As the demand generated Internet porn, analysts estimate that the same could happen for new mobile content services. Today there are hundreds of sites devoted to adult entertainment iPhone. It predicts the mobile porn could strike over U.S. $ 4.6 billion profit for 2012.
12. - Paris Hilton: Where was his "career" without the sexy video "One Night in Paris"? The film showed several risque scenes of socialite who was a sales record in 2004.
Source: PC World
