[stephenr]

Literally from the article, emphasis is mine:

> An ASCII artist who goes by the screen name “goto80” told me in an email that, according to his research, the first modern text-based porn was probably sent via teletext. Teletext was a late 70s pre-internet technology for sending text and graphics to a television set, that never quite took off in the way people thought it would at the time.

[kmoser]

Not saying goto80 is wrong, but I'd like to know what his research found and why he's qualifying it with "probably".

[ochrist]

Teletext is still used in several countries.

Also, I have seen ascii art on telex-type machines. These are limited by using only five bits, and so you can only use lowercase characters (or uppercase, but not both).

There are some examples here: http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/RTTYCOM/

[dualboot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

[stephenr]

What point are you trying to make? Arpanet is not the internet and the internet is not Arpanet.

The claim wasn't that it predates any wide area network. It was that it predates the Internet, a specific well known wide area network.

[dualboot]

Your lack of understanding of the history of the internet is really not any of my business nor concern.