Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day

• asdrabael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • asdrabael@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I vividly remember as a young teen watching a completely free Webcam feed from Amsterdam of unpaid amateur people who liked to be watched have sex(on dialup) with a little watching counter in the corner. It was literally front page, didn’t even have to goto a page and click a hotlink. Or how Whitehouse.com was a porn site and kids would regularly go there by accident in the school computer lab doing projects.

      I never used TOR until like 2004 and by then I was in my 20s. In 2007 I came this close to buying $40 in bitcoin to use on silk road when they were less than a penny. I could be a millionaire right now if my ex hadn’t talked me out of it.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My friend went through thousands of USD in BTC in the 2010s buying various drugs. He sold the rest when it hit a couple hundred dollars. I had some BTC in like 2010… but it’s gone now forever. It’s frustrating to think how much money we could have now, but you and I both would have sold before it skyrocketed to 100k!

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