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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Would love to bounty on @saymore to have an internet veteran talk about the internet pre-1995-ish times: adoption challenges, societal perception, mainstream media perception, et al

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.