I helped start a pretty big ISP in 1994 (2nd biggest in America for a while), and it was a wild and woolly time. Our first week of operation, signing up users

I helped start a pretty big ISP in 1994 (2nd biggest in America for a while), and it was a wild and woolly time. Our first week of operation, signing up users at a rate of 1000 - 2000 a day, I decided to check in on the servers I'd spent days getting ready for launch - USENET, DNS, Email, etc. Just for grins (because those were woolly days), I launched a network scope to see what the traffic was all about .. my naive enthusiasm for this "new era of knowledge and access to information" literally leaking out of my eyeballs .. only to discover, 90% of the traffic that our over-heating modem banks and under-provisioned 56k T-1 line, was all .. porn. That was my first big reality adjustment with the Internet, and the beginning of my disinterest in the subject, as a commercial activity. I just didn't feel like it was worth it to do all that fuss and nonsense, only so that 90% of the traffic was boobs. Well, I left that scene. If I'd stayed, I'd have raked in the cash, at least 3-figure millions (the guy I started it all with made something along those figures) .. but I definitely am glad I didn't have to spend years, afterwards, scaling to masturbation. I know, I know, there's nothing wrong with it and we need to grant people the respect to exercise their rights (and lefts) whichever way they want. I just didn't personally want to be involved, and left to do other more productive things, like start one of Californias very first full-service web development agencies, and get Prime Sports Network their first live-sports event streaming on the Internet happening ..