Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? (lemmy.world)

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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

File-sharing services for buccaneering purposes in the early 2000s didn't have previews. So if you wanted to, say, buccaneer some video erotica, you'd be going just on filenames, which might not be accurate.

Aaaand you just downloaded some child porn. Oops.

[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Fun pro life tip for Yarring purposes: Some of Ye Ol' Networks™ are still around and glorious. I still routinely use DC++ for comic books lol.

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

The worst thing was the cp, for sure.

Yahoo used to have these nsfw "clubs" where people shared porn and bizarrely enough there was even cp in a few of them.

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