Who knows what was the first ever adult site?

[LB-69]

Its interesting to know what was the first ever pay site. And if the ppl that run it is still in the business.

[farkedup]

technically the first "site" was newsgroups AKA BBS and yeah its still around.... and you better believe there was porn swapping

[Damian_Maxcash]

I ran a BBS that had the hottest asci porn in the UK.

I am the the biggest geek here. I moved to Chemeleon BBS and introduced email to the uk!

Well I would have been if I could have got it to work. lol

[don cabron]

Cyber Erotica? I got my first ever affiliate check from them back in 97.

[Gman.357]

A site called Amateur Hardcore comes to mind as being one of the first. I believe the same company owned it that now run Adult Friend Finder.

[Hank_Heartland]

Originally Posted by Gman.357

A site called Amateur Hardcore comes to mind as being one of the first. I believe the same company owned it that now run Adult Friend Finder.

Think you have the right site among a group of sites they had...Wrong company as it is the company that started and runs IFriends

[CurrentlySober]

Clublove or BabylonX?

[Gman.357]

Originally Posted by Hank_Heartland

Think you have the right site among a group of sites they had...Wrong company as it is the company that started and runs IFriends

Ooops. I knew it was one of those 'friend' sites anyway. Thanks.

[cranki]

Originally Posted by ThatGuyInTheCorner

Clublove or BabylonX?

I remember babylonx from my surfer days... Been unsuccessfully trying to get access with stolen passwords from password sites

[Peaches]

I worked with a guy (Ed Kinsley I think? Carolyn Tilga may have been involved too - this was a long time ago and my memory lasts about 2 weeks) who opened up a site about a year before CyberErotica. It called Nightsomething. That's the first real "site" (not a BBS) with graphics and stuff I can think of. He didn't pay for traffic. Amateur Hardcore was the first site that paid for traffic AFAIK.

[Vlad]

www.sizzle.com ;)

[Hank_Heartland]

Originally Posted by Peaches

I worked with a guy (Ed Kinsley I think? Carolyn Tilga may have been involved too - this was a long time ago and my memory lasts about 2 weeks) who opened up a site about a year before CyberErotica. It called Nightsomething. That's the first real "site" (not a BBS) with graphics and stuff I can think of. He didn't pay for traffic. Amateur Hardcore was the first site that paid for traffic AFAIK.

Peaches, momma, you know everything:

[Hank_Heartland]

Originally Posted by Gman.357

Ooops. I knew it was one of those 'friend' sites anyway. Thanks.

I think the company was called WebPower back then

[nikki99]

interesting

[raymor]

We're probably going to need to look back a bit further than Cybererotica et al.
Of course we have to distinguish between internet porn and a porn web site -
the internet is decades older than the web. The first graphical web browsers
became available in late 1993 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html ).
That same year, Tim O'Reilly launched the first commercial site (mainstream).
By the following year, the first goverment officials were busted downloading
porn on government computers.

By 1997, when I started in the business, we estimated that there were about
100,000 non-free sites, 30% of those under AdultCheck. By this point in 1997
80% of the traffic and 90% of the revenue on the web was adult related.
The age of Cybererotica, X-Pays, etc. followed soon after. Though
cybererotica.com was registered in February of 1996, this was just three weeks
before adultcheck.com was registered for the first major AVS system and porn
was already well established on the web.

AdultCheck, registered in March of 1996, was a major turning point for the
industry because it meant you could get paid for your adult site memberships
without having to get a merchant account - meaning any smuck could launch
an adult site from their living room over the weekend. The first porn site,
with images, would have been at least two years earlier, in 1994. Which site
it was would depend on the exact definition of "porn site", as browsers were
able to download images for display in a seperate window starting with the
first web browser in 1991. (Finished Christmas 1990, it wasn't released until March 1991).
Playboy scans in GIF format were available on Compuserve by then, so it's
reasonable to assume that in wouldn't have taken long for Berners-Lee or one
of those first web pioneers to jokingly put a nude image on their site for one
of their friends to see. So the first porn accessible via a web browser was probably someone messing around in 1991 and if so they'll probably never
admit to it. The first COMMERCIAL porn site would probably have appeared in
late 1994 or early 1995, a year and a half before cybererotica. This would
coincide with the release of Netscape, then called Mozilla. The first site
DEVOTED to porn was probably also late 1994, when new Netscape users
coming from the porn filled environs of Compuserve and Prodigy came to the
web.

A whois on sizzle.com appears to give a bogus registration date of Wed Apr 26
00:00:00 1995, as indicated not just by the bogus 00:00:00, but by sizzle.com's
own claim on their web site which says they launched in 1996 along with
Cybererotica and AdultCheck. I'm curious about this, so I sent an email to
the owners of sizzle.com, whose umbrella brand is sexinc.com.

[tony286]

someone should write a history of.

[Steve Awesome]

I don't believe the nameserver records back then included timestamping. I was looking at the domain for digital.com and saw the same thing.

http://whois.domaintools.com/digital.com

[LB-69]

Originally Posted by tony404

someone should write a history of.

That is an interesting idea..

[spunkmaster]

The news groups were a big hit for surfing porn back in 91- 93

alt.sex and alt.porn were online long before the www.

[Zorgman]

I ran a sex BBS in Sydney back in 1991 with 5 phone lines coming in called Graffiti Bridge.
I don't consider a BBS as a website but still.
Amiga 500, 4MB ram + 52MB hard drive. 5 x 14.4k modems.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Damian_Maxcash

I ran a BBS that had the hottest asci porn in the UK.

That's really hot!

[SmokeyTheBear]

i had a bbs paysite before the internet was the internet.

It wasn't technically a porn site though , it was more for gaming , but alot of porn too