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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica - not an internet address in case you wonder, but a NNTP group. Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

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  • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

    We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea, but most of them were rather harmless, especially if you contacted the network administrator of the site he came from.

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    • mystik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had killfiles back then. And clients that sorted/threaded conversations the way we wanted. And upstream operators that could often physically visit the offenders to tell them to knock if off. Those were the days …

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Online porn existed before internet

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do we count Bulletin Boards as pre Internet?

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most bulletin boards like fidonet existed in parallel with the internet, and even used internet bridges to transfer mail and files across long distances where a dialup connection could not be used.

      NNTP actally was quite network agnostic, the messages did not care about the means of transport. I actually handled a NNTP link back then via floppy disk.

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