Akkam’s Razor

There was a segment on NPR's On the Media (I think) recently about how porn is being left-behind in the great social networking gold rush.  This is quite surprising, given the internet's indebtedness to pornography.  Without the demand (& market) for pornography, the internet as we know it would never have come into existence. In the beginning the internet was a dark & silent place.

In the beginning, all the content that existed was text based - fan fiction, MUDDs, stories, and the like. Eventually, the web came to be - and what followed was a world of color, sight, & sound. And what drove that market? Peoples desire to watch and listen to porn created the market necessary for innovation.