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Pepperidge Farms remembers the nsa wiretapping at&t since 03 or earlier, and assumingly some or most of the internet traffic.
and most of what the internet from 95-03 was just newbs getting on AOL,IRC, ICQ, or email for the first time and discovering games porn, websites, hacking, anime, etc.
i mean the 90s were funner but frustrating hardware and connectivity meant only us patient nerds would be online. now it's ubiquitous on purpose. for marketing and other nefarious reasons. as if 5g or LTE have been secure. might as well say WEP was good enough too.
with more advanced traffic analytics available, it's wayyyy harder to hide in the noise.
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We also had weird ass chatrooms.
The 90s had ample supply of weird gross freaks who were just smart enough to get dial-up working because they needed it to trade child porn and post racist screeds on sports talk forums.