re: #51 mmmirele

I remember back in the early ’00s, my father said to me, “Don’t you know that porn has been the driver of technological advances?” Then he gave examples. People wanted their porn faster—so we went from dialup to DSL to cable. People wanted to be able to save their porn, so storage space became cheaper. Then people wanted to be able to see their porn move (videos) and storage space combined with cable became oh so much cheaper. And so on.

Today we have advances being made because of the bullshit that is AI. Frankly, I prefer when advances were being made because of porn and cats. /sarcasm I’m no fan of porn but I do understand how porn was an innovator.

You younguns don’t remember ASCII porn, do you? That’s what we had back in the olden days. NOW GET OFFA MY LAWN!

I think VHS won the video tape wars specifically due to Betamax not having enough porn.

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