• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.

    Google dawt cawm… Fun smily face pack 4 chat on yahoo and aim Download Ooh, desktop strippers? Sweet! I’ll go ahead and get that too. Oh no way, a purple ape assistant! Sweet, lemme git that. I’ll be ur buddy bonzi.

    Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.

    At least I think that’s what they did.