That might be the reason that you, a private individual, bought a PC. But there had to be enough PC's out there already to make it worthwhile making games for t

That might be the reason that you, a private individual, bought a PC. But there had to be enough PC's out there already to make it worthwhile making games for that market. That bulk market was created by spreadsheets. And same for pron - there had to be enough people connecting to the internet to make it worthwhile making the pron available. That bulk market was created by email. I'd agree that pron was a major early adopter for the web - the experience of piecing together pictures of naked ladies from hundreds of usenet posts was decidedly lacking.