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Message ID: 12
#12, RE: Elder Days Story Time
Posted by Pasha on Mar-14-14 at 07:47 PM
In response to message #6

>We also had a pretty smoking internet connection and something like
>fifty plus computers in the library. (My high school, for the record,
>was enormous; 1600 or so people.) No filter, either. It was
>theoretically possibly to browse porn on them (although I can't recall
>anyone being that shit stupid; every screen was in full view of the
>front desk) but as long as you didn't do that you could browse to
>pretty much anything you wanted. I read a lot of NXE during study hall
>on those things.

Heh. There was a filter of some sort on our connection, but being as I used the library's windows machines to telnet into The Armory><1> in order to read usenet<2>, they couldn't have told if I was reading porn or comp.lang.* without getting *really* close to the screen.

Also, it was through porn that I found EPU in the first place, so there's that.

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-Pasha
<1> John DuBois, aka spacecdt, the runner of that machine, died a couple of years back. This made me sad.
<2> I remember having to explain to the vice principle that I wasn't "hacking" when they saw those.
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."