Cole Samantha - How Sex Changed The Internet And The Internet Changed Sex An Unexpected History - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: From the moment there was an online there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was Lena taken from Playboy's November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi - user domains quickly came to serve their members sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate hot or not Harvard co - eds. In fact virtually every significant development that defines the Internet we know and love (and hate) today privacy issues online payments and online banking dating social media streaming technology mass data collection came out the meeting of sexuality and technology. Not only did sexuality vastly influence the internet but the internet arguably changed modern sexuality by giving every imaginable non - hetereonormative community a safe place to explore fantasize thrive and be accepted. Which of course only led to more exploring more fantasizing more thriving. A lively highly visual history filled with broad themes and backstories pioneering personalities and eureka - moments How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex covers everything from Jennicam (remember her?) to deep fakes. And most of what came in between including A Brief History of Online Dating and the promise that VR spaces like the metaverse hold for the future of human sexual interactions. Porn is just one part of the story. Rather this is a story about human nature during the digital gold rush of the last fifty years.
Title: How Sex Changed The Internet And The Internet Changed Sex An Unexpected History
Author(s): Cole Samantha
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9781523513840
Pages: 288 Pages, 4-Color Photos Throughout
Publication Date: 11/15/2022
Category: Popular Culture