Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoI was online at 11 or so, but back then we pretty much just had AOL teen chat and rudimentary web sites.
Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoI was online at 11 or so, but back then we pretty much just had AOL teen chat and rudimentary web sites.
asdrabael@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Ooo yah my young ass found AOHELL TOOLZ and would scroll the chat or send logoff bombs to peeps.
Golden age indeed.
asdrabael@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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.