How the Dark Side Transformed the Internet

In these days of social media, new consumer digital voices and other consumer advancements, it's very easy to think that all of this online technology prowess erupted from scores of benevolent IT experts and informatics innovators. Certainly the latter group is responsible of much of that, but the dark side of the Internet had much more to do with it, particularly in the early 1990s.
According to CIO magazine, the next time you use streaming video, online payments, post your family pictures online or take part in a peer-to-peer network, you do that courtesy of initial major innovations spawned by the pornography industry, who largely pioneered all of those technological advancements.
Hard to believe? Check out CIO's chronicle of the dark side here.