# First Porn on the Net?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 3, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022 "2006-04-03T04:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/21 "2006-04-10T06:59:24Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> [Here is a directory of RTTY art of women, most of which would be called pornographic by most standards.](http://www.textfiles.com/artscene/rtty/COLLECTION/ARTWORK-04/)

By who’s standards? Virtually all of them are adapted from _Playboy_ magazine photos from the 1960s and 1970s. Not most people’s idea of “pornographic”.

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/22 "2006-04-10T09:34:54Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> [Here is a directory of RTTY art of women, most of which would be called pornographic by most standards.](http://www.textfiles.com/artscene/rtty/COLLECTION/ARTWORK-04/)

Those are quite fascinating from a purely artistic point of view- someone had to sit down and work out the ASCII symbols etc to get the shading and light right, all so early Techno-Geeks could see some breasts.

Of course, some of them are closer to Magic Eye pictures than ASCII Art/Centrefolds, but still, you’ve got to marvel at their dedication…

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/23 "2006-04-10T16:03:37Z")

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I remember seeing a web site in 1994 called “Jef’s Nude of the month”. That is the earliest I remember seeing on the Internet. Everything else I had came from BBS systems I’d dial into.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/24 "2006-04-10T21:13:18Z")

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Wait, there’s porn on the _Internet_ now?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/25 "2006-04-10T21:37:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> By who’s standards? Virtually all of them are adapted from Playboy magazine photos from the 1960s and 1970s. Not most people’s idea of “pornographic”.

Playboy isn’t pornagraphic? It’s not hardcore, maybe (depending on one’s standards of “hardcore” and “softcore”), but it’s explicit pictures of naked women intended for purposes of sexual arousal.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-porn-on-the-net/351022/26 "2006-04-10T21:45:40Z")

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Got you all beat. Prestel. 1982.

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