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Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago

kids had to swipe their parents' credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web.

Umm no they didnt. Free porn was a thing even in the 90s, and some porn sites used 900 numbers you had to dial into and pay by the minute on your phone bill.