A website that offers photos and videos of explicit sexual activity. Pornography in print dates back to the 1840s when Daguerreotype photography became available and especially in the late 1800s when the first film cameras were developed for still photos. See
Daguerreotype.
When Kodak introduced the 8mm movie format in 1932, countless sex-oriented films were made because 8mm cameras and projectors became widely available. See
8mm film.
After the advent of the Web, porn sites became extremely popular. Today, estimates vary widely with regard to the number of sites online and range from hundreds to tens of thousands. However, the larger numbers may be artificial because a single porn site can publish the same content under a hundred different country domains. Pornhub, xHamster, XVideos and XNXX are major sites. See
revenge porn,
nudification app and
private browsing.