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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by Piskvorrr on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:47PM (#16769046)
Because the world was a nicer place back then, or because the computers were far less useful and thus mirrored the world far less?
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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by TeMPOraL on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:34AM (#16773068)
The latter. As long as it was bunch of nerds doing nerdy things, nobody cared. As soon as computers started processing things relevant to regular people, the regular people happened, and with them all the incentives for hostile behaviour.
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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by Piskvorrr on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:51AM (#16773189)
Indeed. I was being overly rhetorical :)
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