according to this article from the archives of the San Jose Metro: Metroactive Features | Cyberporn
The web, as it turns out, is a medium made for porn. It’s private, anonymous and interactive. By migrating to the web, porn tapped an enormous pool of consumers, most of whom seem to be e-porn surfing during work hours, when 70 percent of porn surfing takes place.
While there is no definitive measurement, many analysts agree that men seeking pornographic material account for about 40 percent of the searches conducted on the Internet each day. Since images and video take up so much more bandwidth than, say, email, porn surfers probably consume close to 70 percent of the Internet’s capacity.
These surfers and millions like them changed the fortunes of many Silicon Valley corporations, large and small. Indeed, without porn, the economic miracle of the second half of the 1990s would be much more of a yawner. There would be fewer people on the streets of downtown San Jose and Palo Alto, and fewer swanky restaurants. More homes would still be in the six-figure price range, and commute times would be shorter. Sports figures, not Internet geeks, would appear in beer commercials; the stock market would be table conversation for few people other than brokers or retirees. Bus ads and billboards would again carry water conservation messages, presidential candidates would raise their money in Texas and Hollywood, and Time magazine could go back to covering global warming and international politics.
…which comes as no surprise to anyone with a referer log. But take this article with a grain of sand – the author describes the Cisco 7200 as a “massive” router, which it’s anything but.