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Pornography On The Internet
By: Joseph Dimech & Derhy Hawrylak
Table of Contents1. Definition2. The Beginning of Pornography on the internet3. What is ASCII Art?4. Early 90’s5. Big Business!!!6. Today…7. Thumbnail Gallery Post8. Statistics…9. Video Link10. Conclusion11. References
Definition Pornography is the depiction of
sexual behavior that is intended to arouse sexual excitement in its audience. (1)
The Beginning of Pornography on the Internet
USENET
•A world wide discussion network.
•Images scanned from adult magazines were encoded as “ascii text” and then broken into sections which were posted.
•Image quality was restricted by the size of files that could be posted due to the bandwith size in the ‘90s. (2)
What is ASCII Art?...
• ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures.
• Images had been
transmitted over the Internet as “ASCII porn” but to send images over a network needed computers with graphics capability and also higher network bandwidth. (3,4)
Early ‘90s• Pornography grew
rapidly in the 90s once internet was available to the general public.
• Able to watch porn movies on their home computer rather than waiting weeks for an order from a magazine. (2,5,6)
•1998,Income of the US adult entertainment was rated at $10–13 billion, $4–6 billion were legal.
70s 80s 90s 00s0
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Big Business!!!! The pornography
industry has larger revenues than:
Microsoft Apple eBay Yahoo Amazon Google Netflix
COMBINED!
(6)
Today... Sex is the #1 searched
word with 75.6 million searches worldwide annually
With 414 million web pages containing the word “sex”
(6)
Every second $89.00 is spent on internet porn
Thumbnail Gallery Posts A categorized list
(more often it's a table) of small pictures (called "thumbnails") linked to galleries.
(7)
Statistics…. Pornographic websites- 4.2 million (12%
of total websites)
Monthly Pornographic downloads - 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
Daily pornographic search engine requests- 68 million (25% of total search engine requests) (6)
Video Link
http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats/#
Conclusion
Pornography is considered one of the driving forces behind the rapid expansion of the World Wide Web
Progressed the VHS, DVD and Internet
Pornography is and will always continue to be available, as long as there is the internet and basic knowledge of web navigation.
Any Question
s?
Thank You!!!
Refrences1. http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/
P/Pornography.aspx2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Internet_pornography3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_porn5. http://wiki.mediaculture.org.au/
index.php/Pornography_and_Internet_Technologies
6. http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail_gallery_post
Refrences
Pictures1. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/
DVDReviews42/the_mask_blu-ray.htm2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_porn3. http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/14-
most-visually-appealing-free-wordpress-themes
4. http://top-10er.blogspot.com/