Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? - eviltoast

My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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      1 year ago

      A couple times I downloaded a “video file” on my Mac which, when played in VLC, just showed an image saying “Open this file in Windows Media Player”.

      Yep, that would be malware looking to attack WMP and Internet Explorer.