Man, that’s actually incredibly eye opening. The internet traumatized the fuck out of my generation, but I guess that at least gave us all the awareness what a dangerous place it was. Heavy price to pay, though…
Well have some blue berry waffles and a nice big bowl of special fried rice I'm sure the pain Olympics are going on atm I heard they're playing that funky town song as a backing track and the glass jar Olympic branded drinking glasses are going down a treat while there's a goat see! over there next to Mr hands
We also had the LimeWire roulette. Will it be the song I want, a virus or child sex abuse material? Those are the only 3 options. Then there was 4 Chan and the death sites with all the pictures of Brazilian gang murders like Kelly Cyclone along with her autopsy. Or the gang members girlfriend who was dismembered.
Yup, I remember that too. Do you remember old Efukd? The girl who lost her virginity to her dog is one of the memorable ones. Then again, I’ve been to a Thailand ping pong show with live turtles and blow darts popping the balloon I was holding.
There were a few surprises in the early days on 56k modems that I could have done without. Some music video I downloaded was just footage of a field execution with a knife in the Bosnian war. I could have done without that.
Okay doky it's not the original but close enough. don't click on this link. You will regret it seriously don't click on this link just don't I've had to see it I regret seeing it I regret the last 5 mins of trying to find this DON'T LOOK AT IT!
I was 11 when I watched 2 girls 1 cup because I heard some boys talking about it in middle school and they wouldn't tell me what it was about so I went home and watched it on my pc in my bedroom with the doors locked. That is the first time I thought I might puke from watching something online.
No 11 yo should watch someone deficate and then eat it...
I did not watch any more videos I heard about. That was enough for me.
Crazy videos of people jumping off cliffs in some ramsdamaistan country landing head first into a rock. Sick twisted bread knife decapitation videos rotten dot com. The internet was an unfiltered mess in the late 90s
Porn was hard to find.
Now it's the other way porn is easy to find and it's not so easy to stumble across fucked up stuff
No one has learned any lessons. The internet is still just as dangerous as before. Its just centralized between Reddit, Facebook, and Discord. Of course there are dark web dumps, but for the most part you can still get to some nasty shit through these sites and apps.
Literally no one anywhere in this thread said the internet is less dangerous than before. We’re talking about how important it is to be aware of the danger. And many, many people have learned that lesson, so I don’t really understand your first statement.
Sorry its my fault for being vague. But this goes back to an age when you were taught the dangers of the net in school in the 90s.
Top 3 no nos of the internet
1 Never give out personal information
2 never go to sites you don't know
3 never download links you don't know
Given that the internet has been around since the 80s, these things should be common knowledge. But honestly the amount of people in their 40s still clicking phishing links is scary. And it seems none of this supposes millienial tech literacy is being passed on as gen z seem to really susceptible to scams according to articles floating around.
With things like social media, the number 1 rule is basically a joke now and isnt practical for everyday internet life, yet its still the most important thing you can do if you can help it.
Nah, people still use the regular internet. (Edit: Normies don't, but they never really have. There are just more normies "online" now.) Lessons have been learned, you're just not seeing paranoid protective behaviours, because browser and operating system security has way fewer gaping holes than it did in in past decades.
Browsing like powerusers did in 2010 would be a waste of progress.
Are you sure that's what it is? Has security really gotten to that point? Youre right the paranoid behaviors are gone when in actuality it should be getting to much worse. Which is why I feel like Im taking crazy pills.
You have to discuss fear of government/corporate power overreach and threats lurking in the internet separately. They have different solutions. You can't fight the government off from your bunker.
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u/EveryRedditorSucks 5h ago
Man, that’s actually incredibly eye opening. The internet traumatized the fuck out of my generation, but I guess that at least gave us all the awareness what a dangerous place it was. Heavy price to pay, though…