My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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File-sharing services for buccaneering purposes in the early 2000s didn't have previews. So if you wanted to, say, buccaneer some video erotica, you'd be going just on filenames, which might not be accurate.

Aaaand you just downloaded some child porn. Oops.

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    A couple times I downloaded a "video file" on my Mac which, when played in VLC, just showed an image saying "Open this file in Windows Media Player".

    Yep, that would be malware looking to attack WMP and Internet Explorer.

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