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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

IIRC, I genuinely, accidentally, first discovered internet porn on an elementary school computer, as a 5th grader.

Tried to go to the website for the whitehouse.

Turns out, the real website is whitehouse.gov, not whitehouse.com

At the time… yep, whitehouse.com was hardcore porn, this was way before school network admins… really even existed? muchless had any kind of url/ip blacklists.

So yep very old school, early days, near-miss or adjacent url hoarding… I think that would have been all the way back when expedia, yahoo, askjeeves were all still competetive search engines, and I am pretty sure I was using Netscape Navigator, hahahah!

Anyway, I was quite shocked, rofl, having grown up thus far literally going to church every weekend, being told by my parents that I couldn’t participate in the school Halloween festivities, as that was a ‘Satanic’ holiday.

Hooray fundamentalist upbringing!

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