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Re:Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987 by Brian_K_White on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:29PM (#42036983)
Pre internet, the entire world could not access that phone book effortlessly, nor F with your life effortlessly and by remote control and without even being detected.

Both sides of every such silly observation changed, not just one.

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Re:Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987 by vidarh on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:54PM (#42037441)
Not mess with your life so easily, but even being in Europe, I knew I could call 411 in the US to get information at least a decade before the first time I visited and actually used it.
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