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Re:It’s 1997 and you want to build a website by bestouff on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:09AM (#31998101)
Exactly. I had an open (read/write) ftp server in beginning of the nineties. It was nice, people could put files in there, retrieve what they wanted.

By the middle of the nineties I had to write-protect everything and leave only an "incoming" directory with write access, because some jerk deleted everything just for fun.

By the end of the nineties I was fed up with everyone trying to use my "incoming" directory for storing warez/pr0n so I gave up (yes I tried setting it write-only but what's the point ?). Well, it was fine while it lasted, the community of people on the internet definitely changed in a few years, and it didn't get any better in the following decades.

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Re:It’s 1997 and you want to build a website by johannes1234321 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:57AM (#31999195)
Most people are good™ and have good™ intentions. This works well in small circles. But a small number of people isn't that good and thanks to internet and all be connected the bad have lots of power and destroy it, while being a small minority ...
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