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Man I miss the old internet when things were more playful and that was the extent of harm being done. Not that I condone cheapskates stealing your bandwidth. M
by croon 5y ago
Man I miss the old internet when things were more playful and that was the extent of harm being done. Not that I condone cheapskates stealing your bandwidth.
Maybe it's just rosy nostalgia.
- efitz 5y agoRemember when security was pretty much just scanning floppies for viruses before you ran the program?
- chrissnell 5y agoOh, believe me, that wasn't the worst. The worst was an undergrad in a university computer lab who harnessed many dozens of workstations to DDoS us off the net when he got into an IRC argument with someone.
- croon 5y agoHaha, right, my nostalgia blocked off that part of it. That was definitely a thing. IRC BNC:s became mandatory to avoid the risk.