General Discussion

No one likes to think of it that way, but there's a lot of truth in it.

In the early days of the web, there was a lot of doubt that people would be willing to hand out their credit card details over the internet. Many investors were wary to fund legitimate business ideas. Then some cheaply set up porn sites quickly proved that yeah, people will to anything for better porn. Concept proven, investors were sold and the web exploded.

And for ages, porn has driven demand for faster websites and higher-resolution monitors and such. Sure it's not the only thing, but whenever I hear analyst insisting on giving games credit for this without mentioning porn I have to laugh.

Like it or not, porn has always been an important player in the advance of technology. And yes, it's behind ai and robotics too.