• @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    325 days ago

    Of course. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica - not an internet address in case you wonder, but a NNTP group. Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

    • DefederateLemmyMl
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      225 days ago

      Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

      We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.

      • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        124 days ago

        Yea, but most of them were rather harmless, especially if you contacted the network administrator of the site he came from.

      • @mystik@lemmy.world
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        125 days ago

        We had killfiles back then. And clients that sorted/threaded conversations the way we wanted. And upstream operators that could often physically visit the offenders to tell them to knock if off. Those were the days …