Early Internet was full of scams - trojan viruses, redirecting websites that drained your phone bills, stealing credit card numbers, etc.

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TIL… ty. So I wonder if these illicit problems were less covered by media b/c it was “weird corner of the world, niche culture” kinda thing for a long time?

It feels media posts from that time don’t cover scams very well. They focus on illicit usecases eg porn and drugs more

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I think the ratio was different because the early Internet wasn't about financial services and making money, so the sums were smaller. But it was annoying! 

IIRC @cdixon.eth first startup was about providing safety scores for different websites.

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yea same. I used excite.com for the first time late 1998. had very limited access to internet and computers until 2005

I started using it around 1998 and it was pretty limited because of the high prices and my early age so I can't tell too much 🤷‍♂️