The best bit of Nerve’s deceptively swift history of how sex drove the internet, from ARPAnet to gonzo pro/am sites: “Yet, as normalized as online pornography may be, the material itself has become increasingly stripped of any greater context or meaning… The digital revolution has accelerated this trend greatly — partially because bandwidth costs money, which in turn encourages producers to limit their content to the essentials, and partially because the conventions have become self-perpetuating. Much like computer code itself, porn has become a purely symbolic language…”