Originally published at: 1994 article warns about the "Floppy disk porn threat" | Boing Boing
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Windows 3.1 and porn, back together again…
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Rubbish, you can’t put anything in floppy.
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Internet King? Wonder if he can provide faster nudity?
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Solihull is a “posh” bit of the Midlands; very mittle britain, Tory and performative pearl clutching
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I’m so glad we managed to conquer the threats that porn represented, and that there is no porn on the internet.
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Forget porn, it was pirated copies of Leisure Suit Larry In the Land of the Lounge Lizards we were at risk for in the early 90s.
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Next time the christo-fascists show up at my local school board to scream about “pornography” in the school library, I’m going to show up with a laptop and Reddit open on the web browser. Should make for a fun meeting.
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The message from police and teachers is check what sort of material your children are playing with, before it is too late…
Ron Howard Narrator Voice: “It was already too late…”
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I had a old 386 with maybe a 14,400 or 28,800bps modem and let’s just say BBS sysops didn’t give a fuck I was twelve in 1994.
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No lie, I was in the computer lab full of Apple ][e computers in high school (mid to late 80’s) and one guy got busted trying to print a naked lady on the dot matrix printer. This was the age where they got a grant to boost “computer use” built a room full of Apples, and had LITERALLY NO IDEA what do with them. They 100% created a computer science class out of thing air, and let the 5 of us nerds who wouldn’t leave them along just do stuff in the lab all day. Seriously, all they did was check to see if we showed, up and gave us A’s if we did anything.
I played Wizardry, and Spy Hunter all day, and wrote a couple programs in BASIC to show off when the teacher asked us to show them something.
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Do any of you remember how many hours (and hours and hours) of key punching and card reading it used to take to make one of those dot matrix pictures? And when it finally worked, wow! You would have thought we’d reprogrammed the food commons to serve tacos every night or something! Those were the days, my friends, those were the days …
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ASCII porn, corrupting our youth. And driving them blind by having to view it from across the room.
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Did floppy porn ever supplant field or forest porn? In my early days at IBM I found a couple of floppy disks in a workbench drawer. Curious, I put them in one of the computers and figured out the concept of “NSFW” years before I saw the abbreviation. One disk had a half-dozen or so jpegs, and a viewer program. The other had “Strip Poker 3.” Since it was IBM they had (already old) PS/2 Micro Channel machines, which IIRC meant that one could fit more on a floppy
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I had a cousin that worked at a very large insurance company, he would make calendars and various other posters from their printers. I wonder what he did that gave him that much free time.
My mom made and sold these when I was a we little tot. I remember stapling the cards. I’m pretty sure my dad brought the cards home from work. He was an accountant at Ford.
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