• @Worx
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    814 hours ago

    People born in 2007 shouldn’t be old enough to be online yet…

    • @Worx
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      1614 hours ago

      When I wrote this I was thinking, “12 is a little young to be online but I guess they could be”. No, turns out someone born in 2007 would be 18 right now. Yikes

      • @[email protected]
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        512 hours ago

        I was online at 11 or so, but back then we pretty much just had AOL teen chat and rudimentary web sites.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 hours ago

          I was online when I was 11 also, back in 94. No google. No yahoo. No youtube. Just non-stop unregulated pornography as far as thee eye could see. Then yahoo showed up and had yahoo chat WITH NO BOTS. They even had a Webcam feature on dialup. I was 14 by then and I remember going into a Webcam room with a woman in Australia in her 40s and she made me watch her use a huge black dildo. The original rickroll was goatse, or this website that infinitely loaded popup windows until it crashed your pc.

          Truly a golden age.

          • @[email protected]
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            19 hours ago

            Ooo yah my young ass found AOHELL TOOLZ and would scroll the chat or send logoff bombs to peeps.

            Golden age indeed.

            • @[email protected]
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              29 hours ago

              At the time I had no pc in my house, I could only use it at my grandparents house. They got AOL, and like a week after getting it he checked his email and it was a porn spam with a big image of 2 lesbians using a double sided dildo and he called that day and canceled AOL and he switched to a smaller local isp(back when those existed). I still cackle at that, with how ubiquitous emails like that are.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 hours ago

                Hahaha that’s excellent. When I hit like 13, I was fed up with AOL’s walled garden (funny, because now I love my iPhone, but at least I get the whole internet) so I installed something like freeinternet.com or whatever and the Opera browser came out, so I used that. My mind was blown when suddenly I didn’t have parental restrictions. The free internet was a crunchy place back then!

                Then, as a later teen, I discovered suuuper early TOR. THAT was a wild place. I stumbled upon things I did NOT want to see.