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What's your favorite memory from the early internet? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by 5redie8@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I loved this one. Before broadband internet was common a number of us would download our Linux ISOs from questionable websites in our university computer lab and then take our files home on floppy or zip disk. I remember once my friend got trapped in a number of popups which claimed to have pictures of "Britney Spears Nude!!!" and I loudly asked him "what does 'Britney Spears Nude' mean?" in the full lab and then watching him panic close down everything.

Golden days!