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The Internet rules, but we lost something innocent and good from those times. Discovering a BBS was so exciting - new games, new filez and, most importantly, ne

• DrAwdeOccarim 5y ago
  Yea, totally. I remember downloading my first picture of a naked lady from a BBS me and my friend had found. It was a single playboy centerfold that took 20-30 minutes to download. I distinctly recall us turning the monitor off to let it download so a) we didn't get caught by his parents, and b) so we'd be surprised by the entire image once it was done downloading and we turned the monitor back on. Now, a single click and you're watching a real donkey show streaming in 4k for free. I am genuinely worried/curious how society and children coming of age now are going to develop when they have access to such dramatically different and stronger pornography. I could see it going both ways, like marijuana legalization, it becomes less cool so less kids get into it. But reproduction is such a low-level, fundamental driving force in all life (esp humans), that it probably can't be simply not viewed by especially horny male teenagers.
• kragen 5y ago
  > A lot less toxicity and higher quality interactions. There were good places and bad places, same as now. I recall a post where an acquaintance of mine was angry at his teacher and was pondering whether, hypothetically speaking, it would be better to rape her and then kill her, or first kill her and then rape her. And there was always drama, people getting banned from BBSes or signing up with a name designed to look like somebody else's, etc.