Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/May 9

Today in 1994 the iconic domain sex.com was registered, the most expensive Internet domain name. The associated website is often referred to as the first major commercial pornography site. Internet porn has been around for longer, initially mainly in the form of ASCII art on BBS and Gopher sites. But it was with porn that the Internet started to take off as a business platform and many online marketing innovations were developed.


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