inothernews:lunchfood:

• AOL began as an on-demand videogame service in 1983
• In 1983, the New York Times charged $12/mo for access to online content
• Steve Case was not AOL’s founder
• The New York Times was originally called the “New-York Daily Times”
• The New York Times didn’t print from August 10, 1978 to November 5, 1978.
• Printing the NYT costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle
• Facebook was built in a week
• Facebook was originally a Hot Or Not for Harvard called Facemash
• Zuckerberg built Facebook without plans to make money
• Twitter was its founders second idea
• The Twitter founders paid back their investors after their first idea failed
• Yahoo was originally called “Jerry and David’s guide to the world wide web”
• Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”
• Yahoo raised just $33.8 million though its IPO
• Apple actually had three founders
• The first Apple computer cost $666.66
• There are nine states without Apple Stores
• “I’m feeling lucky” button costs Google $110 million per year
• Google was named after a typo
• Google was originally called “BackRub”
• The first company to buy and run an ad through Google’s automated auction business was a live mail-order lobster store
• Google tries to forecast which ads will get clicked on based on the day’s temperature
• The Washington Post has its own theme song
• Jeff Bezos’s father funded Amazon.com with a $300,000 check
• The first book sold by Amazon.com was titled: “Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought”

Neat!

These activities range from typical kink, such as body part fetishes, sadomasochism and group sex, to truly taboo practices like bestiality and incest.

Robert Dunlap, a sex therapist and filmmaker, attributes this increased participation in Paraphilias (i.e. socially unacceptable sexual practices) to the proliferation of websites featuring racy subject matter: “The Internet has changed everything. So many people can go online and say, ‘This is me. I love this. I am finding like types.’”

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