Antique Memes Roadshow

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Giving you the backstory and appraisals of vintage memes!

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Not sure if antique or prehistoric (i.giphy.com)

submitted 7 months ago by robocall to c/antiquememesroadshow

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[–] danc4498 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter what format the file was in, people did not question opening attachments back then. And computers did very little to protect against malicious emails.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Those were the golden days of infecting people with Sub7. No antivirus, no firewalls. I’d get someone on AOL instant messenger by social engineering them to try out my “screensaver”, then pull their AIM login and buddy list, hit up someone from their buddy list, rinse and repeat.