Re:Spy tech that followed kids home for remote learning
by LocalH on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:54AM
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BBS's are most certainly not the internet. They were most often stand-alone and independent, with offline networking in the form of FidoNet ("offline" in that FidoNet boards would dial up at regular times to transmit and receive messages from other nodes).
BBS's entirely predate the Internet's general availability (although of course the Internet is older than most people realize).
Re:Spy tech that followed kids home for remote learning
by Clubber on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:27PM
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>BBS’s are the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
They kinda melded a little at the end of the BBS era and the beginning of the public internet era with integrated email and whatnot and you can still get to some via telnet, but they were distinct entities / networks / protocols from the internet.
Anyway, what I was trying to say was, pre-internet it kinda required post-puberty hormones to be motivated enough to clear the hurdles to accessing porn.
Also, to another commenter’s point, the porn I was able to access was amazingly innocent by comparison to what is probably commonly available now.