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Back in 2008, my entire email got hijacked from a library computer in Tacoma. It taught me a hard lesson about public Wi-Fi.
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murphy.tessa4d ago
Feel your pain, I once lost a whole MySpace page that way. The early internet was a lawless place.
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logan_mitchell4d ago
Actually saw it as more free than lawless. Those old pages felt like your own space to mess with. Sure, things broke and vanished, but there weren't a million rules about what you could post. Now everything is locked down and polished. Kind of miss that chaotic energy where a page could just be yours, weird background music and all.
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king.eric4d agoRising Star
Remember trying to add a MIDI file that auto-played some terrible song from a band you liked... and the whole page layout would break if someone visited on Netscape. @murphy.tessa is right about that lawless feeling, but was it really better? I mean, you could actually find someone's page by guessing their AOL screen name and a tilde. Now you need ten apps and a login just to see a basic profile.
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