It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by shiftpgdn on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:12PM (#27337385)

The early internet was overrun with this stuff too. Remember Bonzai buddy? Or the ad serving tools that’d claim to pay you for every hour you’re connected to the internet?

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by lamontcg on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:28PM (#27337512)

I remember Usenet before Eternal September and before Canter and Siegel, when the backbone was NSFnet and before the National Information Infrastructure Act of 1993.

If someone was doing anything commercial over e-mail or usenet you could contact their "sysop" or their upstreams and have them removed.

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by mandelken on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:23PM (#27337473)

Wow, blast from the past! I actually got a check from one of those pay per hour ad services more than 20 years ago, and to this day it's still the only check I've ever received :-)

(It was 15 USD so costed almost as much to cash in Europe as it was worth)

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by dopidopHN on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:32PM (#27337545)

They did pay! I was how I was paying for the dial up cost to my parents!

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