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Re:Inside Pornhub by georgia_peach on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:54AM (#30456116)
I don't really see mouseover previews as being in the same league as ethernet, GUI, laser printers, cryptography, TOR, supercomputing, LISP, Ada, etc, etc...
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Re:Inside Pornhub by nix23 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:07PM (#30460944)
>ethernet

Xerox

>GUI

Xerox

>laser printers

Xerox

>cryptography

Maybe the Babylonian empire?

Look i stop here..super-computing , TOR, LISP or Ada is not a driving force, they are a product...you could have said WWW made at cern...but hey

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Re:Inside Pornhub by georgia_peach on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#30469518)
Xerox, under a fat DARPA grant. If you read Kay's "Early History of Smalltalk", or any of the other writeups on PARC projects, it's a genealogy of DARPA projects:

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

As for actual innovations, porn still scores bupkis.

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