An interesting relevation.

The bible did for the printing press, what porn has done for the Internet.

The irony is strong with this one..

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[Princess Snufflebuns]

And that's why I'm an Atheist!

[Jack Ass Knife]

...Wat.

[Psyentific]

Explain.

[PrinceLexmarkThePrinted]

The Bible was the main reason that the printing press became wide-spread and successful: Everyone wanted one, and hand-written copies were expensive as fuck.

Same with porn. Everyone want's it, but the retail stuff is expensive and hard to come by for the more weird fetishes. Enter the Internet => Success!

[shalrath]

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Basically, the "killer app" that drives the development of a new technology is not necessarily the one that it becomes famous for later on.

Printing press - invented to help transcribe bibles and other holy literature.
Side effect - explosion of scientific publications, literature, and other printed works.

Internet - Porn/Videogames
Side effect - mysterious demand for increasingly faster connection speeds, new storage technologies, etc.
Ancillary side effect - Being able to read about string theory on a smartphone while the wife goes shopping.

[shalrath]

Another example is the fact that most of your DNA is very good at one thing, and one thing only. Making copies of itself. The actual sets of codons that make up the genes that get expressed into useful proteins that actually make up the mechanism and structure of your cells come from about... 1.2% of your total genome. The rest of your DNA is just good at replicating itself, and those "useful bits" happen to be along for the ride.

Without the "useful bits", there would be nothing that resembles a human being. Without the "junk DNA", the useful bits would never get reproduced.

[SmackOfJelly]

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[woytaq]

you sir, are a genius :D
but
the internet was created to share scientific data (and for military purposes), porn just got in and made it more popular.

[theBSDude]

Along with what woytaq said, porn (dirty novelettes) popularized the use of the printing press (and literacy).