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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

mistyping goggle instead of google would fill your pc with malware.

edit - are cyberbullying laws really that strong? plenty of derogatory terms thrown around today.

[–] gleph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the good old days of “can you help me, my internet is slow” and you find half a page of Internet Explorer toolbars.

[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Or "help, I've been hacked!" And all it was is their browser homepage has been changed to something dodgy.

[–] fred-kowalski@kbin.sh 3 points 1 year ago

You had me at “Internet Explorer”

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