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iopq
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Omegle 2009-2023
I went online in 1999 and it was almost always online DSL, so the idiots were just as bad back then. Those that didn't have DSL had AOL which is one click to get online
fragmede
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Yeah but even then they had to work to escape AOL's walled garden, which mostly served to keep them in, rather than the rest of us out.
ekianjo
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1999 is not early internet by any measure...
iopq
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1999 is closer to the invention of the internet than present day
TCP/IP was standardized in 1982 and commercial ISPs didn't exist until 1989
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