The Return Of The "Not Worth Its Own Thread" Thread

[Exposition Owl]

This is the same kid who did a report on "unpopular cats" because she thought that was the same as "rare cats"

This is one of those things that I would tell stories about for years if I were that child's teacher. She has brought joy into faculty lounges for years to come by making that mistake.

(Incidentally, Googling "unpopular cats," at least on my computer, mostly seems to give results for "unpopular takes about Cats the musical," which would make for a fascinating report in its own right.)

 

[Pajaro Pete]

Not gonna hunt down our Cheap Games thread if we even have one, but the award winning* SaGa franchise is having a major sale this month. Scarlet Graces and Romancing SaGa 2 are down to 8 bucks! Romancing SaGa 3 is down to 5 bucks! Minstrel Song is... well, it's at 20, but it just came out so

 

[FelixSH]

This is one of those things that I would tell stories about for years if I were that child's teacher. She has brought joy into faculty lounges for years to come by making that mistake.

Oh, that reminds me.

In my last year of school, we had to do a project. My group made a website for a sports club. Part of the project was a something like a report, I guess a sort-of pre-academic work, where we wrote about all the parts we did, including correct quoting. Part of that was a summary in English. Which was part of my work.

I didn't know "Navigation Bar" back than. In German, the word for it is "Navigationsleiste" ("Leiste" of course being the translation for "bar"). But "Leiste" is also the word for a part of the body. And I didn't look up "Navigationsleiste", only "Leiste".

Our English teacher always was so nice, to read over these summaries, correcting them, before we handed the whole thing in. When we got it back, he told me the whole teachers lounge was very amused, by my translation: "Navigation Groin".

For the record, I did find it funny, too.

 

[ShakeWell]

Computers were both expensive and shared, so we had one for the family, in the living room so everyone could “enjoy it”. When I felt the need to see pictures like that loading one stripe at a time, it was the rare times I was home alone, and I would still hover the mouse over the minimize or close buttons on Netscape Navigator, just in case.

I did not have a computer in what could be considered an even remotely private space until the second house I lived in after I moved out of my parents' house. One of the family computers had a porn folder that I nested like four folders deep because I knew the rest of my family would never click through that many layers to see what was at the bottom. IIRC, the folder was just called "Stuff." It was a matryoshka of pornography.

 

[Issun]

I did not have a computer in what could be considered an even remotely private space until the second house I lived in after I moved out of my parents' house. One of the family computers had a porn folder that I nested like four folders deep because I knew the rest of my family would never click through that many layers to see what was at the bottom. IIRC, the folder was just called "Stuff." It was a matryoshka of pornography.

I know we don't notice the tags as much now that they're at the top instead of the bottom, but sometimes you just know a quality thread tag when you see it.

 

[ShakeWell]

I know we don't notice the tags as much now that they're at the top instead of the bottom, but sometimes you just know a quality thread tag when you see it.

🫡🫡🫡

 

[Beowulf]

I did not have a computer in what could be considered an even remotely private space until the second house I lived in after I moved out of my parents' house. One of the family computers had a porn folder that I nested like four folders deep because I knew the rest of my family would never click through that many layers to see what was at the bottom. IIRC, the folder was just called "Stuff." It was a matryoshka of pornography.

...Was that uncommon? I totally did that. I put some random documents in the first few layers too sell the effect, too.

 

[Violentvixen]

...Was that uncommon? I totally did that. I put some random documents in the first few layers too sell the effect, too.

I kept mine in the subfolders of something other people wouldn't look at (some downloadable game I don't remember) but yep, same approach

 

[jpfriction]

Ugh, it occurs to me that we know all the tricks to finding our children’s porn stashes. Poor kids.

At least American Pie taught us all how to be chill about it. Eugen Levy was a saint in those movies.

 

[John]

Nah, they don’t use computers anymore, just phones and tablets. Plus no need to have a stash when it’s streaming 24/7. We’ll find out if they know about incognito mode when I go through my router traffic logs though!

 

[Kirin]

Due to repeated copying of old drives as I moved up to bigger ones, I’m pretty sure I *still* have several weird nested porn folders lying around. Does seem pretty anachronistic these days, though.

 

[Pajaro Pete]

Star Ocean 2 R demo is available, it's good, and cool. It has a 3 hour limit but you can skip cutscenes (or run them at 2x speed) so you don't spend half of that time limit watching Claude and Rena emote ... at each other.

(if u don't want to download the demo, SE also put out a long gameplay trailer talking about some of the changes - kinda weird they chose today of all days to do this, what with the Nintendo Direct and the State of Play and all, but)

 

[lincolnic]

I'm shocked that you all actually saved stuff to your hard drives. I was too scared of getting caught to ever do that.

 

[Phantoon]

matryoshka of pornography.

Now I have a name for my debut album

 

[Violentvixen]

I'm shocked that you all actually saved stuff to your hard drives. I was too scared of getting caught to ever do that.

All floppy disks were shared by the family, FAR riskier to put something on those since they held so little

 

[StriderDL]

Hahaha you guys, truly this is NWIOT. My parents were both blue collar workers with no idea how to computer, so I was able to get away with a lot. UNTIL my uncle, savvy telecommunications salesman, went into my browser history.

Young StriderDL learned a lesson that day.

 

[YangusKhan]

Hahaha you guys, truly this is NWIOT. My parents were both blue collar workers with no idea how to computer, so I was able to get away with a lot. UNTIL my uncle, savvy telecommunications salesman, went into my browser history.

Young StriderDL learned a lesson that day.

This was more or less me, except it was my brother who found my browser history. I still remember the name of the porn website he called me out on visiting. (If you want to know, it was majormelons.com)

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

NWIOT

Could I get clarification for this acronym?

Yes, I tried Googling it. And no, it really didn't help.

This was more or less me, except it was my brother who found my browser history. I still remember the name of the porn website he called me out on visiting. (If you want to know, it was majormelons.com)

I'm not sure whether I should be bothered that it shares a name (well, 10/11 of one) with one of my favorite flavors of Mountain Dew.

All floppy disks were shared by the family, FAR riskier to put something on those since they held so little

Were you not inundated with free AOL discs? I kept everything on those until I learned I could save files directly to the hard drive. Music, games, pictures, fan fiction...

 

[gogglebob]

Could I get clarification for this acronym?

The Return Of The "Not Worth Its Own Thread" Thread

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

The Return Of The "Not Worth Its Own Thread" Thread

*smacks forehead*

Thanks...

*shuffles off to the Idiot Corner*

 

[lincolnic]

All floppy disks were shared by the family, FAR riskier to put something on those since they held so little

Oh, I mean I never saved anything at all. I'd have to re-find stuff every time. But I knew enough to clear the browsing history at least!

 

[Octopus Prime]

If you Asked me to remember my phone number and I’m at a loss. Ask me to remember the complicated series of innocuous links that would *coincidentally* culminate in boudoir errata then I’m on far firmer grounding

 

[muteKi]

I'm shocked that you all actually saved stuff to your hard drives. I was too scared of getting caught to ever do that.

well that's what the browser image cache was for

I tell y'all hwhat, that was a good way to get around the struggles of 28.8k dialup

 

[ShakeWell]

I'm shocked that you all actually saved stuff to your hard drives. I was too scared of getting caught to ever do that.

My family was (is) extremely computer illiterate. My parents couldn't navigate the harddrive if their lives depended on it.

Hahaha you guys, truly this is NWIOT. My parents were both blue collar workers with no idea how to computer, so I was able to get away with a lot. UNTIL my uncle, savvy telecommunications salesman, went into my browser history.

Young StriderDL learned a lesson that day.

My uncle, also savvy, was the one who taught me how to find porn in newsgroups.

...

Ya'll remember when "Zelda.com" was a porn site?

 

[John]

Also Whitehouse.com? Those boobs in government had nothing on the ones on their (not their) website.

 

[Beowulf]

Also Whitehouse.com? Those boobs in government had nothing on the ones on their (not their) website.

I had forgotten that until you said it, but yes! There were a bunch of major .gov or .org sites that had porn .com equivalents.

Were you not inundated with free AOL discs? I kept everything on those until I learned I could save files directly to the hard drive. Music, games, pictures, fan fiction...

I had a little tin box full of rewritten and refilled AOL disks; probably two dozen of them by the end of that era. A bunch with my own writing and files but a lot with porn...because you could only fit a few pictures on each one. My matryoshka of pornography was first video files too big to fit on a single disk, and then when I eventually got my own computer, I used it just in case someone else happened to want to use my machine. Nowadays, there's just the "Not Work Safe" directory sandwiched between folders of comic pdfs and emulators, because my laptop is mine alone and by the time Babywulf is able to find any of my porn...he'll knowingly be looking for it.

 

[Violentvixen]

Were you not inundated with free AOL discs? I kept everything on those until I learned I could save files directly to the hard drive. Music, games, pictures, fan fiction...

Hmm, I remember the CDs but not discs. And CD burners were way later.

Oh, I mean I never saved anything at all. I'd have to re-find stuff every time. But I knew enough to clear the browsing history at least!

I couldn't risk the 5-10min of downloading over and over again! Much faster to just have it in a folder/window. Also personally I usually just needed to look at something then close it, didn't need to keep it open or watch long videos.

 

[Ghost from Spelunker]

Reminds me of the first time I discovered the temporary internet files folder and I was all !!!!!!!!

And when my college-aged sister came over to visit with her boyfriend I checked that folder after they had used the computer and it was now full of porn. I never told her about it. I bet she doesn't know.

 

[Bongo]

Save the good stuff to ~/Desktop/porn/regular and ~/Desktop/porn/weird because links go dead all the time.

 

[Ghost from Spelunker]

links go dead all the time.

Reminds me, where do modern day computers with Windows 10 keep temp internet files? Asking for a friend.
My friend typing in %temp% in that search bar and it went to a weirdo folder with 20,000 .tmp files and folders with one weirdo file inside.