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You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
by badboy 15y ago
You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
- pud 15y agoI remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
- mhurron 15y agoThey do exist. I turned down the chance to interview at one about 6 months ago.
- leviathant 15y agoSure, but IIS in 2011 is a completely different beast than IIS in the 90s.
- junto 15y agoHow long did you spend on this "research" out of interest? :-)
- vacri 15y agoHard to say. The research was done in short bursts.
- traskjd 15y agoThey do exist. I run a .NET developer tools company and had a customer purchase our data access products to use with several of their porn sites. Never did manage to see the final product though!
- mahmud 15y agoYou prude!
- wonster 15y agoWorked for one that was at least in the top 5 porn sites back around 1998-99. All Windows servers running IIS and we were using NetApp appliances for storage.
- d3x 15y agoAEBN was and might still be the largest VOD service online and they run Windows or at least they did while I was there.
- brettz 15y agoSpankwire is alexa top400 and runs in .NET
- thezilch 15y agoVHS, Linux, and now Redis; the webscale race is over!!
- pellias 15y agoI was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.
- gaius 15y agoThe online porn industry were the first people to really deal with scalability (of managing and serving web content, anyway), the first people to deal with online payments, the first people to come under really heavy, sustained hacking attempts, etc. Don't underestimate how much of what you take for granted technologically in 2012, they pioneered in the mid-90s.
- mun2mun 15y agoRelevant http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways_the_sex_trade_has_changed_the_web.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/155745/thank_you_porn_12_ways...
- GrumpySimon 15y agoIt's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.
- jgw 15y agoIndeed - I've heard it argued that the real reason that VHS won out over the technically superior Betamax format, was that Sony refused to license the Betamax technology to adult video vendors. Never dug into it, but it seems plausible.
- saraid216 15y agoHaving just one deciding factor seems implausible. Straw that broke the camel's back? Sure. But calling it "the real reason" completely ignores every other relevant factor.
- anamax 15y ago
- itmag 15y agoPorn and war drive all innovation. Or so they say.
- roc 15y agoSex and war would seem more accurate; porn being just a subset of sex. And I suppose one could argue that war is often just a manifestation of a desire for sex or power/money as an intermediary to sex.
- rev087 15y agoWhich make the concept of war even more obscene.
- roc 15y agoIf you feel that sex is obscene, perhaps. Edit: Otherwise I don't see what the goal does to make the butchery of your fellow man any more or less obscene than it inherently is.
- fluidcruft 15y agoI assumed he was gesturing at the creation/destruction discord inherent in sex/war with war being the referent for obscene. Of course, a full account of sex more than kisses and pleasantries, it also involves competition.
- itmag 15y agoThe (oftentimes sublimated) drive to procreate is one of the most powerful drivers of all human society and action. Perhaps even THE "primus motor" behind it all. In Prometheus Rising RAW mentions that the reason monks take a vow of chastity is because it instantly frees them from one of the major hamster-wheels of the human condition. Of course, I'm not planning to become a monk :) But food for thought...
- Dylan16807 15y ago