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Anon browses ancient memes (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were plenty of bots, especially on IRC.

The difference is, those bots were useful. They'd send you MP3s, or Warez, or respond to prompts, or just hold down your channel in your absence. Until it got K-lined.

Those bots were good folk. They don't speak until spoken to.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were also bots in games which ruined things for the real players.. and chat bots that tried to get you to download/install software which was actually a virus. Oh and tons of viruses back then, nothing like today.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Bots in games...like aimbots...I don't remember being a serious problem. I played a shit ton of Quake and Quake 2 online. Maybe it was a big problem in other games, but I never noticed it.

Yeah there were lots of viruses, but McAfee was a decent program, and they had full versions of their software on their own FTP server that literally everybody knew the password to.