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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 11 points 1 year ago

What the internet was like? Glorious! No stupid internet points, no followers, no tracking. Just random content. Good times...

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

There was even a friendly purple ape named Bonzi Buddy who helped me surf the web. Couldn't have something like that these days without spyware.

[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

The ICQ, AOL and MSN chats were a big focus then. I can still hear those notifications too. It was a simpler time before psychology was brought into hijack our attention.

They have done a excellent job of that with the latest generation of the web. It's too bad we have lost much of the soul of the early web in the process...

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.

Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven't had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 7 points 1 year ago

Now you have catphishing, ransomwere, lot's of different types of scammers and your credit cards can be stolen from some random e-commerce site. You also need to know what you're doing.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Remember when we all suddenly needed personal firewalls after that one virus that kept shutting down the PC with 60 seconds notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

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