[rchaud]

This is a meme I see online often (and in the show Silicon Valley), but I don't think it holds up in practice.

Re: payment systems, Visa and MC are notoriously unfriendly to porn vendors, sending them into the arms of crooked payment processors like Wirecard. Paypal grew to prominence because it was once the only way to buy and sell on Ebay. Crypto went from nerd hobby to speculative asset, shipping the "medium of exchange for porn purchases" entirely.

As for broadband adoption, it's as likely to have occurred for MP3 piracy and being 200X faster than dialup, as it was for porn.

[bcraven]

Third example may sway you;

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1688383/porn-industry-...

[sjw987]

Pretty sure most of the quotes regarding the connection of porn and tech come from people who just watched that episode of Silicon Valley.

A lot of it was clearly exaggerated for dramatic effect for a comedy TV show, and people run with it as fact.