I remember for a long time we had a stack of unused punch cards for scratch paper. Not sure where it was from, I think my mom at one point worked for the telephone company.
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Filed and forest porn was a thing. As was parking garage porn.
As a person of a certain age, I can attest that there is nothing can replace that initial excitement of finding a dirty magazine stash in a field or old building or someplace like that. So random, but yet something that so many others report as a shared experience of youth. From a sociological point of view that is quite interesting.
Never found a floppy drive porn personally, but I can remember loading up a few USB thumb drives to find an entire directory of .jpg files just waiting to be explored. Not the same thrill as the stack of Playboys our little group found in an electrical control box next to an abandoned oil well, but still exhilarating nonetheless.
Thank you for that memory!
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I remember waiting 5 minutes or more to download a picture with no preview sometimes worth the wait other times you really couldn’t unsee it. Usenet was a game changer, lots of fun and I didn’t need to log into individual bulletin boards anymore.
My kid grew up with the internet, the trick was to stay a couple steps ahead which I always did. She started out on AOL and CompuServe she always knew I was monitoring her internet use because I never hid the fact.
She earned our trust and the monitoring didn’t last long.
I think the problem with the internet, porn, and kids seeking out things they’re too young for have to do with parents not keeping up with the technology and talking to them. It wasn’t that hard to keep our daughter safe. We even allowed her to meet up with a young girl she met in an AOL chat room after we met with the parents of the child. I really beat into her head that the kid she thought was her own age could very well be a 40 year old bad man.
Wasn’t that hard to keep the bad stuff away. Of course that was a different time, I’d hate to be a parent of young kids right now, it would be a 24/7 nightmare but I think I’d handle it the same way.
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That’s interesting and scary. In the 70s there was a park near our house, it was not unusual for us to find dirty magazines in places we used to build forts or tree houses. We lived through the serial child killings in Oakland County Michigan in the 70s, teachers and parents scared the living crap out of us about that situation so coming across a stash was both cool and terrifying.
My main source was under my dad’s mattress though.
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When my kids were born I had plans to keep on top of it, but 15 years later it was a lot harder. Once devices went mobile and the internet went cellular, I think the only way is trust because checking becomes impossible.
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If anything, stories like this give me a small shred of hope that maybe all the noise and bluster in the media today is just that, and that the world will just continue on… everyone thinks they are living in the end times, but they never actually arrive and the bad guys ultimately lose out or sabotage themselves.
Then again, maybe we are fucked. Hard to say.
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Dude! You’d be surprised how many pornographic images you could get on one of those back in the day.
Ah yes, the old world of 72 dpi…
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I suppose this is not the right topic to post any A.I. generated illustrations …
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I’d appreciate it. I mean, I still can’t picture it. 5.25" floppies have the holes in the middle at least. But 3.5" have the sliding metal bit. Does the sliding metal bit come into play, even?
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