The Stripper Who Ushered in the Subscription-Based Internet
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The article tells the story of a stripper who allegedly ushered in the modern subscription-based internet, but commenters are skeptical about the accuracy and implications of this claim.
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Porn and the military drive human innovation.
As you say, the idea of subscribing for content goes back hundreds of years.
Also this:
> Video teleconferencing, with the proto-Zoom platform CU-SeeMe
Apparently Skype has completely disappeared from the cultural memory. Video conferencing was invented in 2020, everybody.
It reminds me of that movie "The Billion Dollar Code" [1] where some guys claim that Google stole their Google Maps idea. Whereas in reality, it's more likely that due to certain technological advances, different people came up with the same/similar idea of how to store and display maps.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code
Umm, the guy in that picture isn’t “going online”, he’s making drunken purchases at 2:00 a. m. via QVC’s 800 phone number. You see a keyboard attached to that “monitor”?