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Re:Ending our Medium integration by briffle on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:44AM (#19036647)
Around 1997 or so, I got called into a meeting with my boss, director, and head of IT security. I worked night shift in a wafer fab, and someone was accessing the computers in the office, and visiting inappropriate sites at night (that their new sophisticated monitor found). I was young, and into computers, I guess they assumed it was me. I pointed out that I didn't have a keycard that gave me access to the office area, so it couldn't be me, asked if they checked it. While they were quickly apologizing, I asked what site they accessed.

www.excite.com

The look on their faces when I suggested they actually verify the site before firing whoever it was.....

Re:Ending our Medium integration by astura on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:34PM (#19042356)
I remember seeing a news story back in 1995 about how content for the current Super Bowl (Super Bowl XXX) was being blocked by parental filters because it assumed 'XXX' was adult content.
Re:Ending our Medium integration by richardhod on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:04AM (#19042747)
What kind of content could there have been then for the superbowl: Blinking tags and daily updated grey-background text? Are you sure parental filters really were a thing in 1995. I remember 1995. I was using mosaic.
Re:Ending our Medium integration by giltron on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:33PM (#19037191)
I had a similar experience during school. One real life troll told a substitute teacher I was accessing porn sites. Teaching sub only looked at the website url before kicking me off the computer. Unfortunately there was no follow-up for me to call them out on being lazy/ignorant. Funny thing was the "troll" did get banned later for accessing porn sites on the school network.
Re:Ending our Medium integration by JohnJamesRambo on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:00PM (#19037482)
How dare someone be excited!

I used to have an excite.com email.

Re:Ending our Medium integration by ToFundorNot on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:36PM (#19037826)