{"id":96457,"date":"2025-10-08T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96457"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:54:48","slug":"qotd-porn-is-always-in-the-vanguard-of-new-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/08\/qotd-porn-is-always-in-the-vanguard-of-new-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Porn is <em>always<\/em> in the vanguard of new technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>I remember seeing something years ago that commented on how soon after the development of photography we got pictures of naked women.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5 Florins says after Gutenberg invented the printing press and mass printed the Bible, guys were buying presses and cranking out copies of <em>Thee Hornee Shepard and Thee Shye But Readye Milkmaide<\/em>. \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;T&#8217;would say it be a bodice ripper, but we&#8217;ve not invented bodices yet&#8221; \u2013 Johannes of Cologne, <em>Ye Cologne Courier Newspapere<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>mmack, commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2025\/07\/03\/why-the-internet-stinks-now-guest-post-by-yknowthatguy\/#comment-105271\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why the Internet Stinks Now&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2025-07-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update, 9 October<\/strong>: Welcome, <em>Instapundit<\/em> readers! Please do have a look around at some of my other posts you may find of interest. I send out a daily summary of posts here through my <em>Substack<\/em> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/substack.com\/@nicholasrusson<\/a> that you can subscribe to if you&#8217;d like to be informed of new posts in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember seeing something years ago that commented on how soon after the development of photography we got pictures of naked women. 5 Florins says after Gutenberg invented the printing press and mass printed the Bible, guys were buying presses and cranking out copies of Thee Hornee Shepard and Thee Shye But Readye Milkmaide. \ud83d\ude0d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,57,41,15],"tags":[174,213,408],"class_list":["post-96457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-innovation","tag-newspapers","tag-pornography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p5L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98372,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96457\/revisions\/98372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}