【原文标题】 Thank Sex For Making The Internet Hot
【中文标题】 感谢“性”搞热网络
【登载媒体】 NPR
【来源地址】 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124419606&ps=cprs9
【译 者】 囧囧人
【翻译方式】 人工
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【原文库链接】http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-228763-1-1.html
【译 文】
Breaking news: Sex is popular online.
最新消息：“性”已风靡网络。
"Sex had played a major role in driving many technologies," says Jonathan Coopersmith, a technology historian at Texas A&M.
“性现已成为推动许多技术的重要角色。”德州A&M大学（原译为“德州农工大学”）的一位技术史学家乔纳森•库珀史密斯如是说。
The example most people are familiar with, he says, is the VCR. Many early video cassettes were pornographic, and consumers' desire to view the material in their own homes fueled the early dissemination of the technology.
他说，最广为人知的例子就是VCR（录像机）。早期的很多录像带都是色情片，顾客们想在自己家中观看影片的愿望助推了早期传播技术的进步。
Think back to the early days of the Internet, Coopersmith says. "You had to have the hookup, you had to have the computer, you had to have the willingness to experiment a fair amount. And the people who do this tend to be young men, especially in their 20s and 30s, and this also happens to be a prime audience for pornography."
回顾互联网早期，库珀史密斯说：“你必须要有链接，你必须要有电脑，你还必须要有想体验更多的愿望。做这些事的多为年轻人，尤其是在2、30岁阶段的人，而这个年龄层正好就是色情片的最主要收视群体。”
According to Nielsen net ratings, more than a quarter of Internet users accessed an adult Web site in January 2010. The Web research company Hitwise says adult sites accounted for about 6 percent of all U.S. Internet hits that month — putting the adult category in eighth place, with social networking sites in first.
根据尼尔森互联网测评，2010年1月，超过四分之一的互联网用户进入过成人网站。网络研究公司Hitwise（美国互联网流量统计分析公司）说，成人网站的点击量占美国该月全部网站点击量的6%——成人类网站位居第八名，社会类网站第一。
But Hitwise general manager Bill Tancer says that in the not-too-distant past, adult sites used to get the most hits of anything on the Internet. "If I go back to when I started tracking this data in 2004, that was the highest of any category," he says.
不过Hitwise总经理比尔•唐瑟说，在不久以前，成人网站曾经拥有互联网上最高点击量。“如果回顾我在2004年开始做的追踪数据可以发现，这些网站是所有类型中最热门的。”他说。
Chatting Up Sex
与“性”调情
Of course, that's only taking into account pornographic Web sites — the Internet has also provided a private venue for sexual discussion and education. Violet Blue is a sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes for several online publications and blogs and hosts a popular podcast called "Open Source Sex."
当然，这还只是单单考虑了色情网站——互联网同样为性讨论和性教育提供了一个私人的集聚地。紫蓝是一位《旧金山纪事报》的性专栏作家，为几份网络刊物、博客写作，同时也是一个名为“性开放资源”的流行播客的主持人。
"The Internet has been sexualized even before it was the Internet," she says. Back in the days of bulletin board systems, some people would exchange what was known as "ASCII porn."
“网络早在它成为互联网之前就已经被性欲化了。”她说。回顾公告板系统（BBS）的那个年代，一些人就在相互交换一种被公认为“ASCII色情”的东西（American Standard Code for Information Interchange，美国信息互换标准代码——译者注）。
"This was essentially people using characters by hand on their keyboard to create what look like explicit images, and then send them to each other through bulletin board systems," she says.
“这是最基本的，人们利用键盘一个一个打出的字符创造出来的看似明晰的图像，然后他们再将这些通过BBS相互传递。”她说。
Coopersmith says America Online's popularity was driven by its private chat features.
库珀史密斯说，美国的在线人数由其私人聊天特色来驱动。
"One of the nicknames for AOL in the industry was 'the house that sex chat built,' " he says.
“‘美国在线’在业内的其中一个绰号就是‘性聊天建造的房子’。”他说。
And Violet Blue points out that before YouTube began better enforcing its community standards, "there was a lot of porn on there."
紫蓝指出，在YouTube开始加强执行其社会标准之前，“网络上存在着大量的色情内容。”
Porn Paved The Way
色情铺路
Adult sites also paved the way for the mainstream to adopt several technologies.
They were among the first to integrate e-commerce systems to process credit card transactions. "The first part of the Web to make money was pornography," Coopersmith says.
成人网站同样也为主流大众采用一些技术进行铺路。
他们是第一批通过整合电子商务系统来处理信用卡交易。“网络上首批用来挣钱的就是色情文学。” 库珀史密斯说。
Right now, the adult industry is hurting — due to the same piracy other online content providers face — but in the early days, "you have a lot of some of the tactics, concepts and business strategies pioneered by the cybersex world that then flowed into the regular online world," Coopersmith says. "For instance, creating these Web sites where you join for a fee and you have different levels of membership."
如今，成人产业正在受到打击——与其他在线内容提供商面临着相同的盗版问题——但在早期，“你有大量的由虚拟性空间来开辟策略、内容和经营战略，一同汇入正规的在线世界。” 库珀史密斯说，“举例来说，创建这么一些网站，你需要支付一定费用，然后你就可以拥有不同等级的会员资格。”
More obnoxious practices were also readily embraced by some in the adult world, as many people's junk e-mail folders can easily demonstrate.
一些成人世界也会轻易地包含有更多的令人厌恶的行为，就如很多人的垃圾邮件那样。
Video technology is a place where adult sites have been especially innovative, integrating live video streams into browser windows with early "jpeg push" video. They continue to be on the cutting edge; Peter Acworth, who founded the very NSFW site kink.com, remembers a few years ago when customers were demanding live HD streams, but he couldn't find an acceptable off-the-shelf solution.
录像技术是一块成人网站最易得到创新的领域，融合了视频直播流和早期“图片推进”视频的电脑显示屏（技术）。他们一直走在技术的前沿，创建了NSFW网站kink.com的Peter Acworth还记得在数年前，当客户们要求高清视频直播流时，他无法找到一个可接受的现成的解决办法。
"So we put together our own technology to be able to do so," Acworth says. "You know, you go to CNN or anywhere else on the Web, the video you see is going to be significantly lower bandwidth."
“所以我们将自己的技术聚集在一起，让不行变可行。”Acworth说，“你知道的，你去CNN或者其他网络站点，你所看见的视频将会是较大更低的频带宽度。” |
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