• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Some did this because it was a long time ago and the internet was new and only a few people had it.

    Some people did this because the internet wasn’t new, and the parents knew what kind of trouble giving a 10 year old unmonitored access to the internet could lead to - which meant that they would have to travel to that one friend’s house whose parents didn’t give a damn.

    Then there are those that grew up after the age of smart phones and can’t understand how two people could read from the same phone screen at the same time.

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      3 months ago

      I’m in that first group and can still hear the squeal of the dial-up modem then, “You’ve got mail!”

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      3 months ago

      Some people did this because the internet wasn’t new, and the parents knew what kind of trouble giving a 10 year old unmonitored access to the internet could lead to…

      Happy Tree Friends and helicopter dick jumpscares, among other things.