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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

Issues with Flash and the actual quality of those games aside, what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely. There's no spaces for children on the internet anymore and I think that's really sad, nine year old should be playing Hannah Montana dress-up not get eating disorders from TikTok influencers

Edit for clarity: I didn't mean to come off as though I think the internet was ever safe for unsupervised children because that's not what I believe. What I was trying to say is that the loss of spaces made for children, with adequate content curation and moderation, pushed children on social media which is awful for them

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh, you sweet, sweet child.

I'm just going to say I'm very glad you discovered flash games before you discovered IRC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk man I discovered some pretty entertaining flash games, and never got into IRC. But them AOL public chat rooms, holy fucking shit how did we not all disappear

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, not being American AOL wasn't much of a thing, on account of the A part. Same principle, though.

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