I'm sure that when the foundations for the information superhighway were laid no-one had any inkling of what it would result in. After all it was initially designed as a way of communicating after the superpowers had initiated MAD (that's Mutually Assured Destruction in case you didn't know) and was then later seen as quite a useful tool for communicating scientific research. So in a nutshell defence and research.
Quite how some of the more unusual stuff in cyberspace fits into these neat little boxes, however, is a bit of a mystery. After all, the plethora of porn might appeal to service personnel sitting deep underground in their concrete bunkers until after Armageddon as I would imagine there are limited (ahem) recreational facilities in a missile silo (but then you never know - perhaps this is one of those extremely top secret things that you're not supposed to know about), although I will admit that this does not allow for things like dwarf erotica or aerobics in bondage. Nor indeed can I imagine that the worlds' leading scientists and Nobel prize winners would have much time for three-dimensional zwinkie dating - although possibly this might appeal to people studying artificial intelligence - just as a thought here has anyone other than the producers of Big Brother ever thought of studying artificial stupidity?
Well that's enough of my Sunday musings I'm off to surf the net for pictures of Goth Girls in latex toe socks....
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