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What should I put on them?
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tech/science swag.
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Wikipedia 2014
Wikipedia 2013
Flashpoint (archive of all Flash games and a way to play them)
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Flashpoint is peak lol
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The Internet's been all downhill since the golden age of Flash. There's no two ways about it.
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a couple of music videos i made in flash has millions of views on youtube i got $0 from it
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I'm curious which ones you made. Link?
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lol don't wanna dox myself op-sec wasn't really a thing in 2005/2006
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Clearly you're the afro ninja https://youtube.com/watch?v=b_NQCTbvRnM
old videos are great.
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It literally was after the OG crackers used public info to impersonate people and infiltrate stuff. We just said "Never put your real name on the internet!" and "Be very mindful of nicknames/e-mails when signing up for stuff!" And then Facebook happened.
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I still get shocked when non-commerce ask for my real name instead of a username. Gmail has been prompting me to add fricking my home address recently (wtf).
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lol asia prolly lagged a few years at that point of time and i'm quite sure everyone here was still signing up for shit using our full names as the account names
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yeah that changes it. because kids in the west roughly got accessible broadband the latter half of 90's, while undersea cables were just being laid in asia for the finance people. resulting in super rich kids having access instead of nerds. sorry to hear it took that long for opsec ideas to reach you, glad to have you on this side of culture.
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you did it for free
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fricking corpos
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Frankly it's been downhill since the "invention" of HTML
Gopher and Usenet were peak Internet
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You must be my dads age
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Total Zoomer Death
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It's like heckin middle school again
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