• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    12 hours 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@feddit.nl
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      11 hours 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.

      • mystik@lemmy.world
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        8 hours 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 …