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I was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.

by pellias 15y ago

gaius 15y ago
The online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.
- mun2mun 15y ago
  Relevant http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways_the_sex_trade_has_changed_the_web.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways...
- GrumpySimon 15y ago
  It's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.
  - jgw 15y ago
    Indeed - I've heard it argued that the real reason that VHS won out over the technically superior Betamax format, was that Sony refused to license the Betamax technology to adult video vendors. Never dug into it, but it seems plausible.
    - saraid216 15y ago
      Having just one deciding factor seems implausible. Straw that broke the camel's back? Sure. But calling it "the real reason" completely ignores every other relevant factor.
- anamax 15y ago
  A friend of mine built a lot of porn sites in the late 90s using DB2 and Oracle. He says that Microsoft's SQL Server folks came to him to talk about what it would take to get him (and the porn sites) to use SQL Server. He said that he was confident that DB2 and Oracle could handle the load. They responded that SQL Server was much more capable than he thought and asked him about the workload. Their response to his answer was "we can't even simulate that, maybe we're not ready". I assume that they got better.
- Spearchucker 15y ago
  They were also first at SEO - all of these sites competing for the same words - "sex" and "fuck" being their holy grail.
- roc 15y ago
  As well as advertising networks and referral schemes. Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
  - dchuk 15y ago
    porn is invariably a "solo" endeavor 99.9% of the time
    - roc 15y ago
      And yet a significant amount of money is being made by services whose natural market maps directly onto the porn site viewing market. reviews, 'discreet' dating sites, sugar-daddy match-making sites, etc.
  - keypusher 15y ago
    Scariest button on a porn site is the Like/G+ button.
  - wisty 15y ago
    Social took off when Zuck tricked users into giving out their real names, when meant social networks grew much faster (as old school friends would connect). Porn does "social", but only anonymous social, which is naturally handicapped. If someone created a social network which allowed better privacy controls, the porn sites would love it.

I was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.

by pellias 15y ago

I was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.

gaius 15y ago

The online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.

mun2mun 15y ago
Relevant http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways_the_sex_trade_has_changed_the_web.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways...
GrumpySimon 15y ago
It's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.
- jgw 15y ago
  Indeed - I've heard it argued that the real reason that VHS won out over the technically superior Betamax format, was that Sony refused to license the Betamax technology to adult video vendors. Never dug into it, but it seems plausible.
  - saraid216 15y ago
    Having just one deciding factor seems implausible. Straw that broke the camel's back? Sure. But calling it "the real reason" completely ignores every other relevant factor.
anamax 15y ago
A friend of mine built a lot of porn sites in the late 90s using DB2 and Oracle. He says that Microsoft's SQL Server folks came to him to talk about what it would take to get him (and the porn sites) to use SQL Server. He said that he was confident that DB2 and Oracle could handle the load. They responded that SQL Server was much more capable than he thought and asked him about the workload. Their response to his answer was "we can't even simulate that, maybe we're not ready". I assume that they got better.
Spearchucker 15y ago
They were also first at SEO - all of these sites competing for the same words - "sex" and "fuck" being their holy grail.
roc 15y ago
As well as advertising networks and referral schemes. Though, oddly, they've been late to the game on social.
- dchuk 15y ago
  porn is invariably a "solo" endeavor 99.9% of the time
  - roc 15y ago
    And yet a significant amount of money is being made by services whose natural market maps directly onto the porn site viewing market. reviews, 'discreet' dating sites, sugar-daddy match-making sites, etc.
- keypusher 15y ago
  Scariest button on a porn site is the Like/G+ button.
- wisty 15y ago
  Social took off when Zuck tricked users into giving out their real names, when meant social networks grew much faster (as old school friends would connect). Porn does "social", but only anonymous social, which is naturally handicapped. If someone created a social network which allowed better privacy controls, the porn sites would love it.