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Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates(arstechnica.com)

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floo@retrolemmy.com
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Rollerblades?

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Dzso@lemmy.world
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Strange headline to say that credit card payments as age gates are trending again. Reddit has nothing to do with it.

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Saucepain@lemmy.world
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Stranger still to make the headline about one small paragraph in the middle of the piece that was clearly an aside.

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HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee
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kids had to swipe their parents’ credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web.

Umm no they didnt. Free porn was a thing even in the 90s, and some porn sites used 900 numbers you had to dial into and pay by the minute on your phone bill.

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atrielienz@lemmy.world
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I sometimes wonder if I’m the only person who remembers top sites. Like sites where you went to get straight up pirated material for the purposes of making bootlegs etc.

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PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

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mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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D works well. Being dead puts you in a decent “no one to fool with” category.

Fucker cant even do a prat fall at this point.

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SaltSong@startrek.website
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Also wouldn’t work with the internet.

I remember being very frustrated by this particular implementation.

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Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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“a world in which some kids are likely to be harmed by the laws designed to protect them.”

These laws are 100% not designed to protect them.

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