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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] rcmaehl@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

.on.nimp.org or whatever as well. Nothing like those days when your browser window could move itself around, duplicate windows, set your volume to 100%, the early internet was a WILD time.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, the awakening to the vileness of the internet, was the "Offended" page on Encyclopedia Drammatica. People who wanted to ruins other's time on forums would basically post it as if it were a rickroll, and then the page would have 3 innocuous image right before showing you horrifying gore and body horror. I'm quite sure some of the most awful stuff usually on these lists, like screenshots of the guy who mutilates his own scrotum, were in there.