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I remember downloading this and something published by some Islamic group on Freenet almost (or exactly?) 20 years ago. Never read either of them. I just wanted

I remember downloading this and something published by some Islamic group on Freenet almost (or exactly?) 20 years ago. Never read either of them. I just wanted them because I wasn’t supposed to have them. Edit: really makes you feel old when you start talking about things you did 20 years ago on the internet.

brudgers 4y ago
I read my older brother's borrowed copy when I was in junior high. Me and two buddies went to the Ace Hardware and bought more than a dozen packets of morning glory seeds and then some cheese cloth at the Publix in the shopping center across Michigan Ave. June, 1980.
- abruzzi 4y ago
  i had a copy back in the early 80s. Made the mistake of lending it to somone and never got it back. It was notorious as a book that once borrowed, was never returned. I've hear from many other people who lent it then lost it. I wonder if your brother ever returned it?
  - codetrotter 4y ago
    Maybe his brother is the one that borrowed it from you :thinking_party:
  - brudgers 4y ago
    I have a memory of its return, but it has been a few years. But I know it left after a few weeks, and then at the end of summer he went off to UF.
  - zafka 4y ago
    Then of course there was "Steal this Book". I will claim the fifth in regards to our library copy
jonathankoren 4y ago
Usually these things end up with instructions like: How to make a car bomb: Ingredients: 1 car 1 bomb (large) Directions: Mix. That may be practical instructions if you’re in a war zone, but getting four live 105 mm artillery rounds is bit harder in the suburban United States
- daveslash 4y ago
  How to make a time machine: Ingredients: 1 car. 1 Plutonium powered flux capacitor. Mix. "Doc, are you telling me this sucker's nuclear? Doc, you don't just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?"
alex_young 4y ago
I remember 30 years ago, when I had just started using the internet, that all one had to do to feel rebellious was to send a bit of data using so called “strong encryption”. You could even get shirts with this stuff printed on them. And talking about the internet decades ago doesn’t make us old at all, it just gives us a little more perspective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
WalterBright 4y ago
> really makes you feel old when you start talking about things you did 20 years ago on the internet That only gets worse.
- danesparza 4y ago
  ^^ This.
- worik 4y ago
  > that only gets worse. Better than the alternative
itronitron 4y ago
20 years ago was still 21st century, if that helps you feel any better.
- kstrauser 4y ago
  No, 20 years ago was well back in... Oh dear.
runsonrum 4y ago
I can remember things I've done before there was internet, barely ;-)
autoexec 4y ago
> I just wanted them because I wasn’t supposed to have them. Same. I have zero interest in making explosives, but nothing gets me interested in something faster than telling me it's been censored or I'm not supposed to have it. Forbidden knowledge is a powerful draw, especially when obtaining that knowledge doesn't require anything more than a download.

brudgers 4y ago

I read my older brother's borrowed copy when I was in junior high. Me and two buddies went to the Ace Hardware and bought more than a dozen packets of morning glory seeds and then some cheese cloth at the Publix in the shopping center across Michigan Ave. June, 1980.

abruzzi 4y ago
i had a copy back in the early 80s. Made the mistake of lending it to somone and never got it back. It was notorious as a book that once borrowed, was never returned. I've hear from many other people who lent it then lost it. I wonder if your brother ever returned it?
- codetrotter 4y ago
  Maybe his brother is the one that borrowed it from you :thinking_party:
- brudgers 4y ago
  I have a memory of its return, but it has been a few years. But I know it left after a few weeks, and then at the end of summer he went off to UF.
- zafka 4y ago
  Then of course there was "Steal this Book". I will claim the fifth in regards to our library copy

jonathankoren 4y ago

Usually these things end up with instructions like: How to make a car bomb: Ingredients: 1 car 1 bomb (large) Directions: Mix. That may be practical instructions if you’re in a war zone, but getting four live 105 mm artillery rounds is bit harder in the suburban United States

daveslash 4y ago
How to make a time machine: Ingredients: 1 car. 1 Plutonium powered flux capacitor. Mix. "Doc, are you telling me this sucker's nuclear? Doc, you don't just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?"

alex_young 4y ago

I remember 30 years ago, when I had just started using the internet, that all one had to do to feel rebellious was to send a bit of data using so called “strong encryption”. You could even get shirts with this stuff printed on them. And talking about the internet decades ago doesn’t make us old at all, it just gives us a little more perspective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

WalterBright 4y ago

> really makes you feel old when you start talking about things you did 20 years ago on the internet That only gets worse.

danesparza 4y ago
^^ This.
worik 4y ago
> that only gets worse. Better than the alternative

itronitron 4y ago

20 years ago was still 21st century, if that helps you feel any better.

kstrauser 4y ago
No, 20 years ago was well back in... Oh dear.

runsonrum 4y ago

I can remember things I've done before there was internet, barely ;-)

autoexec 4y ago

> I just wanted them because I wasn’t supposed to have them. Same. I have zero interest in making explosives, but nothing gets me interested in something faster than telling me it's been censored or I'm not supposed to have it. Forbidden knowledge is a powerful draw, especially when obtaining that knowledge doesn't require anything more than a download.