Online Porn: Then Vs. Now

Shocking as it may seem, that spry online upstart Google is already ten years old. In addition to making us all feel old with that announcement, they've decided to celebrate their tenth birthday in the geekiest way possible: by giving us all a trip back in time with Google 2001, a modded version of the search index that only offers up pages that existed in the Google index back in January 2001.

In celebration of Google's milestone, we're taking a look at what porn was like way back in the day--after all, we can barely remember that long ago ourselves. After the jump, find out what the top five search results for "porn" were back then, and what they look like now. (And as an added bonus, we've enlisted the help of The Wayback Machine to show you how those sites looked like all those years ago. Can it be that it was all so simple then?)

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Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In January 2001
PornCity.Net -- The First Free Adult Host (web.archive.org)
PornDirectory.Com - The Complete Free Porn Directory (web.archive.org)
mega porn links. complete listing of adult porn sites (web.archive.org)
Persian Kitty 's Adult Links - www.persiankitty.com (web.archive.org)
Free Porn List - porn XXX sex Link list and Porno Directory (web.archive.org)

Top Five Search Results For "Porn" In October 2008
Full Free Porn Videos & DVDs - Sex, Porno, Porn Tube, Free XXX Porn (pornhub.com)
Porn & Sex, Porn, Free Porn Videos & Movies, Teen Pussy Porn & Big ... (yobt.com)
Free Porn, Sex, Tube Videos, XXX Pics, Porno Movies - XNXX.COM (xnxx.com)
Free Porn Movies, Porn Tube Videos & XXX Porno Stars Having Sex (keezmovies.com)
BabesDosage.com - Your daily dosage of porn, 100% free porn (babesdosage.com)

(The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Though frankly, if we can't be there ourselves we think PornHub is a vast improvement over PornCity for top hit.)

· Google 2001 (google.com)