Is it just me or was Castanet some sort of Internet things besides Vancouver news? I remember digicrime.com making fun of it. And they had all these “services”

Is it just me or was Castanet some sort of Internet things besides Vancouver news? I remember digicrime.com making fun of it. And they had all these “services” where they exploited browser problems like endless popups etc — they specifically said they don’t do spam because they can just sign you up for tons of spam and let those marketers do the work haha Anyone remember that? (“it is now unsafe to turn on your computer”)