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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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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