Porn Star Danni Ashe, The Guinness Record Holder For Most Downloaded Woman On The Internet

You probably know Danni Ashe, if you were teenage boys in the 1990s. Starting off as a nude model and erotic dancer, Ashe quickly became a very recognizable face on the Internet.

And the popularity largely contributed to her claiming a title of "Most downloaded woman on the Internet".

She was born on 16 January 1968 and started off as a female stripper right out after finishing high school when she was 17 years of age, with a fake ID of course. After 5 years of working for the job in Seattle, she moved to Los Angeles to work for softcore porn movies and men’s magazines.

But she didn’t only get massive popularity until the Internet’s arrival in the 90s. With erotic forums getting more users, and the pornographic industry still being on the rising, Ashe realized that it was a golden opportunity for her. After she saw her husband’s website, she then thought of opening her website.

But unfortunately, she failed to search for a developer that was capable of building the website she wanted as web developers were not really common at the time. Instead, she tried to build the website on her own in just two weeks, starting with reading a manual on HTML coding, learning programming on a vacation.

And in 1995, her website called Danni.com was live.

The website was filled with her exclusive content, at the time when there were only just a few porn sites in comparison with magazines. Literally, after just one night, she became an Internet sensation. She has just talked about publicizing her site to her friends before taking a vacation, only got to her hotel a couple of hours later to a message from the Internet Service Provided saying that their servers had been overloaded by her website. They had to move her website to a separate server, and she could charge users for access to premium content.

By 2001, Danni.com had brought her 6.5 million in profit, and it didn’t just stop there. The outcome was not really surprised at all, considering the popularity she had had and how accessible her content was.

And the Guinness World Records finally noticed the success of Danni. On December 2000, with her images being downloaded for more than a billion times, the organisation awarded her the title of "Most downloaded woman on the Internet", beating the previous record of 993,000,000 downloads of Cindy Margolis.

In 2004, Danni though that it would be a good time to stop as she sold her website to John Morisano, a media investor, and was quickly off the radar and most likely enjoyed her life somewhere in the US.