• asdrabael@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    I vividly remember as a young teen watching a completely free Webcam feed from Amsterdam of unpaid amateur people who liked to be watched have sex(on dialup) with a little watching counter in the corner. It was literally front page, didn’t even have to goto a page and click a hotlink. Or how Whitehouse.com was a porn site and kids would regularly go there by accident in the school computer lab doing projects.

    I never used TOR until like 2004 and by then I was in my 20s. In 2007 I came this close to buying $40 in bitcoin to use on silk road when they were less than a penny. I could be a millionaire right now if my ex hadn’t talked me out of it.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      My friend went through thousands of USD in BTC in the 2010s buying various drugs. He sold the rest when it hit a couple hundred dollars. I had some BTC in like 2010… but it’s gone now forever. It’s frustrating to think how much money we could have now, but you and I both would have sold before it skyrocketed to 100k!