Artifact #5

The podcast, Thank sex for making the Internet Hot, was very interesting to me because it pretty much told me what I already knew which was the pornography is a huge part of the internet but gave me some background information on how it became that way. First off, dropping out of college is crazy, especially if you are wanting to go into the pornography industry, even if it did work for this one guy. He was correct when he said this is where the money is at, but you have to make sure that your product, whatever that may be, is good enough that a very large number of people buy it or you won't be successful at all. I did learn that the porn industry has pioneered many advances like safety in buying things on the internet and video quality which I think is surprising and are glad that they did. These two advances made the internet so much better, and I'm sure that a lot of web sites are very glad also. Sites like Ebay must be very thankful because now people are less scared to buy things off them because it is safer. Also, any site that has video streaming benefited from them because of the higher video quality which everyone is happy about because no one likes to watch a blurry video. As much as pornography is a bad thing for most people, for obvious reasons, I can now say that it has made the internet a “better place” in some ways even if that is a hard thing for anyone to say.