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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
Yeah but it doesn't make sense to compare internet and the education of its users 10 years ago and internet nowadays.
Now it's another extreme, you have surfers that will most likely NEVER pay again.
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No cause surfers back then were way more tech savy at the time than those on now. The percentage of people actually online then was way way lower. You had to spend a lot more money to even have a computer. It wasnt like it is now. Joe smo who drives a truck for a living wasn't too likely to get his porn via the internet. He got it from adult book stores in paper bags. So back then it was very likely that those that were online DID know how to use newsgroups. It was also one of the few ways then to get larger files since bandwidth costs for people to have a site were so much.
Its interesting how peoples perceptions of what really happened change over the years I guess. lol