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Stretching the definition of an antique "meme", but here's an image from 2016 about a message board gag in 2006. (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The thought of clicking on some random.exe hurt me a little inside...

So much trust, or ignorance, or both lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How do you think we got to this level of distrust?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even then was a bad move. Speaking from experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

When we were kids we'd download Trojans with fancy UIs for pranks from random websites and install them on each others computers.

How that didn't massively backfire I have no idea, I mean it was before internet banking or even really buying stuff online but still. Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

You don't have a burner machine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Morbid curiosity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

What about putting a drink in the dvd drive?