The Explosion in the Number of Porn Sites on the Internet

What did we ever do before we had the Internet? Snail mail has somewhat lost its charm, because of the slow speed and the cost. Telephone calling is still popular, but made more so because of communication advances involving Internet technology to make the rotary dial version a thing of the past. So, too, the number of porn sites on the Internet has exploded since its advent, due to the technology and popularity of Internet technology bringing high-tech communication into homes and offices worldwide.

Adult entertainment sites such as Bang Bros. and Youporn, along with popular adult performers with websites like Jesse Jane and Crissy Moran, have become so well-known because of the easy proliferation of all types of content on the Internet. The Internet is not "a series of tubes," as Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska once opined. Instead, it is a group of computer networks connected by fiber optics, wireless connections, copper wires and other means. On the Internet is a service called the World Wide Web, which offers a group of documents that connect to each other by means of uniform resource locators, or URLs, and hyperlinks. Other well-known services that are found on the Internet include file sharing, e-mail, remote access, collaboration, streaming media, instant messaging, Internet fax, and voice telephony.

We can thank the Russians, in a way, for the Internet. The United States wanted to regain a scientific lead over the Russians after their launch of Sputnik, and so research began which eventually led to the Internet that we know today. Its rapid growth was due in large part to the use of dial-up access using already established telephone networks worldwide. Anyone with a telephone line could hook up their modem and be online. Today many cities are switching to broadband connections for their high speed and ease of streaming popular media, although small towns are still often not included and are forced to use dial-up at slower speeds instead.