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Until it dies and you start over from scratch.

I am from the adult industry. They are notorious for having that "welp, server harddrive failed, need to rebuild from scratch" mentality.

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Never quite expected these words to be typed on my keyboard, but the porn industry is something I'd like to read a tech article about.

I've read in passing that in times past they were web technology pioneers. Seem to remember some were using Freebsd when the canonical approach was Sun etc. big iron and UNIX(TM), and Linux was perhaps not quite yet mature enough.

From what I've read, the adult industry (or, more generally, the human desire to have porn) has pioneered technology in general. I can't recall the source, but I recall reading something that said that most, if not all visual media were used for porn almost immediately after their inception.

I think porn is also something where your architecture only needs to just work, so that encourages cutting corners and occasionally creative solutions.

>From what I've read, the adult industry (or, more generally, the human desire to have porn) has pioneered technology in general. I can't recall the source, but I recall reading something that said that most, if not all visual media were used for porn almost immediately after their inception.

no kidding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

" Various figurines exaggerate the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva. In contrast, arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless.

The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artifacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function. "

yep :) Imagine an archaeologist in the year 3000 looking at backups of our days Internet and wondering what "ritual or symbolic function" all those images and videos played...

If you think shared hosting and PHP are pioneering, then sure. But no, the adult industry doesn't pioneer much after about 2001.

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