Silkroad, Lulzsec, Buying illegal stuff on TOR, Anonymous, Wikileaks, /b/, when bitcoin was almost exclusively used as a medium of exchange,
There was a time the internet was really the wild wild west. There was a young cabal of youth around the world who thought they can use the internet to achieve world freedom or liberty.
They must have put something in the water. Today’s youth are unintellectual and docile. PS4 and the BoobTube took over.
Bearshare, Limewire, Kazaa I am from that era, internet was fun, going to chat rooms that carter to your likes, or downloading grainy 50mb booty talk porn series for a whole day straight.:D:D @3kbps via dialup…
young cabal of youth is a repetition innit?
kuna boob-chube? Haiya!!
every older generation thinks it has been the best. I believe the younger ones are better equipped and can achieve more than we can right now.
attention span is shrinking… the average 18 t0 25 year old is dumb as fuck these… kizungu mingi but critical thinking hawa wezi
Jake Steed, the last i heard about him he was on the run, guy was the johny sins of that era, he even featured in Dr Dre chronic 2001 pause for porno.
Yes it was wild. Nowadays Google controls everything. It’s Search gives you what they want you to see. Bing is limited. Yahoo is crap. YouTube is heavily censored and connected to Google. You mind is never taken down a rabbit hole of things you couldn’t imagine.
Yandex iko aje.
That was what the creators of tech intended for internet to be till wazee wa congress came in and wanted a chip of the dollar
Only that the CIA was behind anonymous and it got out of hand with independent offshoots
It was a cover to wage cyber war and instigate colour revolutions especially in Middle East.
Good times they were on the interwebs though. I used to visit silk road out of curiosity na bitcoin niliijua ikiwa literally worthless.
When you could literally mine thousands of them with a laptop.
If only… Smh