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mk  ·  4522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else remembers when the Internet was a nice place to visit?
It was pretty darn innocent and friendly before www. BBSing was too simple to get unfriendly. Mostly just nerds, having fun.




1c7  ·  4522 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I wasn't in before www, though.
mk  ·  4520 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Just saying that it was a pretty nice place to begin with. However even then, there was a dark side. A kid in my school ran a bbs with a few phone lines, which was a pretty rare occurrence. He also boasted "over 1 gig of storage" which was also unheard of. Anyway, most of that storage was porn. I recall he knew some guy that would take pictures of girls at a local hotel.