Pornography is the rather embarrassing answer.
Though few will admit it, porn drives technology. Purveyors of adult content were the earliest adopters of VHS, DVD, and e-commerce. If the amount of spam in my inbox offering XXX pics is anything to go by, they've even remained immune to the dot-com crash. Videophones have been a staple of futurology for decades, and their modern wireless incarnation was first covered by Network Magazine back in November 1999 . Made by the European operator Orange , the videophone suffered from the by-now familiar delays of new wireless products.