Our first filter that recorded logs was in July of 1995. They were more of an espionage feature that a filtering feature or rather a psychological filtering feature. We were contacted by some businesses that wanted to "trap" employees for the purpose of firing. The logs would be the proof they needed for malfeasance. They wanted to avoid any "wrongful dismissal" legal scenario.

There were also wives that would contact me. They didn't want to filter their husbands computers they wanted to find evidence. Logs could do this. One could only imagine the domestic ugliness that would follow.

And there was businesses that didn't want to bother with blocking software. They preferred the psychological approach. They would announce a policy for example watching porn on the companies computers was grounds for dismissal. And announce that all web traffic to pornographic sites was logged. This would create the necessary inhibitions for the employees and they would not have to put up with the "over blocking and under blocking shortfalls of filter software. Psychologically the employees would filter themselves.

These were the primary consumer application "pulls" that demanded logs back in 1995.