Internet pornography is any pornography that is accessible over the internet, primarily via websites, FTP connections, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. The greater accessibility of the World Wide Web since the late 1990s led to an incremental growth in internet pornography, the use of which among adolescents and adults has since become increasingly popular. Danni's Hard Drive is considered one of the earliest online pornographic websites, started in 1995 by Danni Ashe, a former stripper and nude model; the website was reported by CNN to had revenues of $6.5 million in 2000. Estimates of the total number of pornographic websites stand at nearly 25 million, comprising about 12% of all the websites. In 2022, the amount of pornographic content accessible online is estimated at over 10,000 terabytes. Xvideos.com and Pornhub.com are the two most accessed pornographic websites. The sex and tech conference series Arse Elektronika dedicated their 2007 conference to what they call pr0nnovation. The con presented a keynote by culture theorist Mark Dery, and published a reader about the subject. A 2015 study found "a big jump" in pornography viewing over the past few decades, with the largest increase driven by the people born in the 1970s and 1980s. While the study's authors noted this increase is "smaller than conventional wisdom might predict," it's still quite significant. Those who were born since the 1980s onward were the first to grow up in a world where they had access to the internet from their teenage years, this early exposure and accessibility of internet pornography might have been the primary driver of this increase. , a single company, MindGeek, owns and operates most of the popular online streaming pornographic websites, including: Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn, as well as pornographic film studios like: Brazzers, Digital Playground, Men.com, Reality Kings, and Sean Cody among others, but it does not own the websites xHamster and XVideos. The company has been alleged to be a monopoly. History and methods of distribution Before the World Wide Web Pornography is regarded by some as one of the driving forces behind the expansion of the World Wide Web, like camcorders, VCRs and cable television before it. Pornographic images had been transmitted over the internet as ASCII porn but to send images over network needed computers with graphics capability and also higher network bandwidth. This was possible in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the use of