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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd have Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, and Yahoo opened when I was trawling the Internet for porn while my parents were out for 30m when I was 14 years old. There were always substantially different results, though somehow they always ended up the same: with me infecting my parents' computer with some shit. Let's say I did a lot of learning from my mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember the porn networks that tried to get you to download their software to connect, and then it ended up being a dialer to a 900 number?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That is funny, and sounds like it'd be pretty expensive. I actually didn't encounter this fortunately, because I was already costing my parents a fortune because I just couldn't stay under 300 texts a month.