I saved my porn images, which i curated over many disconnects thanks to incoming phone calls, deeply nested within some program folder. No one was gonna accidentally stumble on my great stash.
I hid my spank bank inside game directories. At the time most of the textures for any game were image files so it was easy to hide them. I learned that those image files could be modified pretty easily. I used this to upload my entire spank bank as wallpapers in the Sims. I tried to change the character texture models for Vice City or GTA3 I can’t remember which, to reasonable some model I was obsessed with as a teenager to limited success.
Phht. I just downloaded porn on kazaa and limewire, which invariably ended up being a virus, and then my dad yelled at me asking why the the browser kept trying to go to “Britney spears sucks dick” websites and I got banned from the computer for months
I was too dumb for any contingencies so I would have porn image files all over the desktop and browser history. There were some traumatizing moments
I saved my porn images, which i curated over many disconnects thanks to incoming phone calls, deeply nested within some program folder. No one was gonna accidentally stumble on my great stash.
Data hoarding is born from data droughts
You forgot to put *67 before your dial-up number? It was one of the earlier things I learned about using the Internet in the 90s
I hid my spank bank inside game directories. At the time most of the textures for any game were image files so it was easy to hide them. I learned that those image files could be modified pretty easily. I used this to upload my entire spank bank as wallpapers in the Sims. I tried to change the character texture models for Vice City or GTA3 I can’t remember which, to reasonable some model I was obsessed with as a teenager to limited success.
Phht. I just downloaded porn on kazaa and limewire, which invariably ended up being a virus, and then my dad yelled at me asking why the the browser kept trying to go to “Britney spears sucks dick” websites and I got banned from the computer for months
Limewire is why I learnt to use Linux through necessity.
There was a huge computer herpes epidemic back then 😔