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Comment author: Lumifer 23 April 2016 01:38:51AM 0 points [-]

But another is that web sites, able to provide a look and feel appropriate to their community, plainly outcompeted networks of plaintext content.

Ah, yes, porn as the engine of technology.

The web had pictures, "networks of plaintext content" did not. Case closed.

Comment author: Error 28 April 2016 04:34:49PM 0 points [-]

Objection: I'm pretty sure Usenet had a colossal amount of porn, at least by the standards of the day. Maybe even still the case. I know its most common use today is for binaries, and I assume that most of that is porn.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 April 2016 04:48:55PM 0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure Usenet had a colossal amount of porn

Of course it had. But, compared to the web, it was (1) less convenient to get; and (2) separated from the textual content. Think about the difference between a web page and a set of files sitting in a directory.

Comment author: Error 29 April 2016 04:22:18PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I'm getting out of that comparison what you meant to put into it. I find the set of files in a directory a heck of a lot more convenient.

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