Timeline
From xyclopedia - the history of pornography and sexual expression
Over at the Oprano messageboard for adult entertainment webmasters, there's an interesting thread today -- users are constructing a timeline of the adult industry. It's pretty comprehensive. Here's one of the more densely annotated timelines, submitted by user "Gonzo." After the jump, and into the late 20th century, we get into tech-centric milestones like Betamax and Section 2257 that made the present-day biz what it iz. I love how the timeline does one humongous warp-speed leap from the 1400s to Dr. Ruth. Guess there wasn't much shagging going on for 500 years! Snip:
1st century BC - Kama Sutra was created 1440 - Gutenberg Press Invented 1928 - Dr. Ruth was born. 1953 - Hugh Hefner starts Playboy 1965 - Bob Guccione starts Penthouse 1968 - Al Goldstein starts Screw 1969 - First mainstream movie to represent the swinger lifestyle - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Directed by Paul Mazursky 1970 - Penthouse shows pubic hair for the first time. 1970 - Notable Porn Movies - Cycle Studs - Le Salon (Gay) 1971 - Notable Porn Movies - The Boys in the Sand - Wakefield Poole (Gay) 1971 - First condom to appear in a movie - Carnal Knowledge, Directed by Mike Nichols 1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Deep Throat - Gerard Damiano (Straight) 1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Behind the Green Door - The Mitchell Brothers (Straight) 1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Fritz the Cat - Ralph Bakshi (Anime) 1974 - Larry Flynt starts Hustler. 1975 - Betamax introduced 1975 - First condom commercial air on television 1976 - VHS introduced 1978 - Larry Flynt is shot in an assassination attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down. 1983 - Name server developed at University of Wisconsin 1984 - Penthouse publishes pictures of Vanessa Williams naked. She resigns her Miss America crown. 1984 - Domain Name Systems (DNS) introduced 1985 - Symbolics.com is the first registered domain in history 1985 - Earliest domains to be registered - cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu, berkeley.edu, ucla.edu, rutgers.edu, bbn.com, mit.edu, think.com, css.gov, mitre.org 1986 - Traci Lords is discovered to be underage 1986 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese published 1,960 page report investigating porn at the order of President Ronald Reagan. 1988 -Title 18 United States Code Section 2257 was enacted 1990 - First commercial provider of Internet dial-up access - world.std.com 1992 - Term "Surfing the Internet" is first heard 1993 - Don't Ask Don't Tell introduced by President Bill Clinton. 1993 - World Wide Web goes live. 1994 - Sex.com was registered by Gary Kremen 1995 - First confirmed blowjob in the White House. 1995 - Sex.com was stolen by Stephen Cohen 1996 - Domain name tv.com sold for $15,000 1997 - DVD introduced 1997 - Domain name business.com sold for $150,000 1998 - Viagra introduced 1998 - Al Goldstein installs Fuck You Finger in his backyard in Florida. 1999 - Domain name business.com sold for $7,500,000 2000 - Sex.com was given back to Gary Kremen after a legal fight. 2000 - AEBN launched first VOD site 2000 - American Express stops accepting porn transactions 2001 - Yahoo removes porn banners from search engine 2003 - Paypal stops processing adult transactions 2003 - Penthouse files bankruptcy 2005 - Sex.com theif Stephen Cohen arrested 2005 - Video iPod introduced 2006 - Sex.com sold for a reported $12,000,000 2006 - Google resist court order for porn search results
