That’s awesome!
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Forums and chat rooms…90s internet…what a time to be alive. The naivety and innocence. I do miss having a forum for the local AHL team.
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When I first started whatever it was that the provider provided us to post on, I was just that as far as exchanging posts with strangers on anything. I quickly learned one lesson. I naively thought that it would all be civilized, polite and friendly exchanges. Well, one of my first comments was how I would gladly sign a petition for ban fossil fuel burning. Oh the vitriol that came my way. Down right hatred, every strong insult they could think of. You would think I was asking for all their cars to be immediately towed away. That was a wake up call and I was not so naive and innocent any more
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Back in the early 2000’s we used to have group chats with Shivers when Riderville forum was a paid site. Other group wasn’t too happy about that exclusive arrangement and whined the Riders into shutting down the forum. Don’t recall the CFL forum in those days as i never felt a need to visit.
Shout out to Wolfe and Gypse
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This was a time when nobody heard within Big Tech, “Silicon Valley” as referred to back then, foresaw even the problem that SPAM would become.
E-Mail and much of the internet were never designed in their origins with much security in mind if any at all.
“Why would anybody bother to waste their time sending fake, chain, or scam e-mails?” was the prevailing thinking.
The rest is now an old history.
Such are hardly the first or the last examples for when Big Tech overlooked basic and raw human nature and only adjusted reactively for whatever has been readily foreseen by a smaller few.
Via the world of software back then, nobody wanted to hear anything to delay a release.
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Hate to derail the thread but you recall the 95’ movie Hackers with Angenlina Jolie. They were pretty awe struck with the 56k modem and what was essentially a pentium 1 computer lol. Anyway, teckies were aware and everyone was a basement hacker messing with code back in the day. They didn’t want the spotlight any more than the corporations.
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