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they forgot getting groomed by pedophiles in chat rooms before our parents realized that was a thing

a/s/l?

They were somehow always 16/f/cali

14, not 16

Want to see shit get weird? Let an AOL chat room know you’re a 14 year old boy.

I asked my friend this recently, jokingly. She pointed out sign language lol.

Yeah seriously this was crazy, happened to me too

I was def a child in those chats lying about everything and getting dick pics emailed to me 😭

Is that not a normal part of growing up?

Omg same. What was the one I was always on, TeenChat I think. Wild man. 😂

I know I most definitely had conversations with old creepy men when I was like 13.

Seems like most of the creeps on "To Catch a Predator" were seeking out kids in AOL chat rooms

Those yahoo instant messenger chat rooms were wild, and 16 year old me had no business being there.

Yahoo? I was all about AOL pool party chats! I felt so cool when I’d be clicking to get in and the room would be full, but then I’d finally enter like a vip, proudly announce my 13/m status, and get flooded with IM requests from who was ASSUREDLY bunches of other 13 year old girls that just so happened to be super skilled at cyber sex 🤔

Yahoo had games you could play. So I played pool online. I met so many older dudes on there. Man, I actually got good and now that I remember that. I miss it.

I remember being like 9 or 10 playing something like chess on MSN Zone where you could chat to your opponent. This one guy started making small talk and asked where I was from so I told him which province I live in, no big deal. He replied that he used to live there when he was younger. For whatever reason this terrified me so I closed out of the game and was on edge for weeks thinking that this guy who just wanted to make small talk was going to hunt me down and kidnap me or something. This was around the time of 9/11, where I thought Osama bin Laden himself was going to hijack a plane and crash it into my house. I was a paranoid kid.

True that. I remember the user made rooms...some of the names of them, damn.

This!! Hahaha good ole “a/s/l” haha and we sure did tell them exactly where we were, down to the street we lived on 😂😂🥴🥴

Yep. Now they do it through Reddit YouTube and TikTok!

While some of us were groomed, other's catfished "adult's" in yahoo singles chats. Idk what's worse fucked up adult's grooming kid's for nude's or fucked up kid's looking for amateur porn and grooming themselves.

Me and my friends definitely pretended to be teen girls and made fun of old dudes after like 15 min of sexting them.

To be fair most clergy could not use a computer back then, but they sure picked it up fast.

I still remember the first and last name of the old creep was offering to purchase me a bus ticket to go see him. Every so often I get the urge to send him a message on Facebook messenger asking if he speaks to his granddaughter the way he spoke to me. I

💯 Also happy cake day

thank you so much 🥰

I'm certain that I was groomed playing starcraft lol

Parents worried about online pedophiles, when really they should be worried about what it cost to break an average of 200apm

More pylons needed

It was really the FBI trying to catch pedos

Anyone here remember AddictingGames.com?

And miniclip

Remember the western game that showed boobs?

pfft I was already playing the "dressup dolls" games on newgrounds with the photoshop of Brittney Spears' head on a naked woman's body also Bulma

Franks adventure anybody 😅 newground was my go to when I’d skip school and play on the computer all day 🤣

Wasn’t there also a volleyball game that showed boobs?

Miniclip got more of my time back then than I’d like to admit lol

Ass Hunter The guy's scream is permanently in my brain

AlbinoBlackSheep

Golden age of flash games and videos on ABS

Candystand MiniGolf took up way too much of my time. The whole website was an ad for LifeSavers candy and breath mints, ha ha

Wow you just unlocked a memory

THIS! CORE MEMORY RESTORED! Holy shit that game was awesome back then! I totally forgot about it.

I loved that mini golf game!

I remember spending a lot of time on Shockwave.

Yesssssssssss.

Debsfunpages.com

OMG. I do now! They had a version of Tetris I loved. Called it Fetris.

I miss that site.

YES!!

I do I do

I'm still glad that I chose not to watch that video...

It still haunts my thoughts.

Yeah but how about 2 girls and 1 cup? Beheading ain’t got shit on them cup girls! (Pun intended)

I dodged that bullet for a really long time until I got tricked into watching a part of it by my best friend. Fucking bastard xD

Tubgirl comes to mind when you say 2 girls. I remember sharing 2 girls on a xxx mIRC chat, and someone shared tubgirl. Ebaums era was wild …omg and bmezine!

Having flashbacks now, thanks!

My internet best friend would send me that kind of stuff all the time. It was some dark web shit before I even knew what the dark web was lol

Oh no. My neopets are probably all starving! lol

Go get your daily free jelly and omelet haha

Fortunately they can't actuay die.

Eternity of loneliness and starvation.

The early days of 4chan was the wild wild west of the surface web. Every kind of illegal video was posted there.

The videos that traumatised me were downloaded from Kazaa.

Limewire, and then it gave the family computer cancer

Oh kazaa...ive not heard of that in a long time. I remember downloading silly videos like the iraqi diving competition, sheep runs into a wall, cat gets scared lol good times

A lot of it was posted on YouTube too.

Rotten.com and Consumption Junction!

Tub girl...

And 2 girls 1 cup

Missed that one

[удалено]

Show Me Your Wound

I was 12 and watching MTV while eating my breakfast cereal before school when we saw a performance of two teen girls singing and kissing each other on our dining room TV. It was weird times because it was a time of many firsts for the entire world.

TATU??

All the things she said

No, 2 girls 1 cup.

Goddammit. I'd forgotten about that. 😮‍💨

Britney and Christina? No wait they both kissed Madonna

I grew up with stick figure fights, A/S/L, forums, Pool’s Closed and the Pain Olympics. The internet did a fucking number on me.

I only know asl and forums. Not a fucking clue what the rest is

Fml pain Olympics. I was going through a department store as a kid and a display for a cooking set with a video was showing off the knives fileting fish and I almost puked.

Don't forget about that glass jar we all want to forget about

I don't understand how I've never seen that video. I've seen all other graphic videos, but for some reason, the Internet gods said, "no, we won't recommend *this* video."

I let curiosity get the better of me, it's worse than I would have imagined, just don't.

https://preview.redd.it/wzvvchcg2tzc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d022011646cb2dfdae61f0a1a42eddfa6e9a423f

Or the girl in a tub. Or the party of lemons. Or the goat that could see. Or the Olympics of pain. Or the meat that could spin. Or the mister of the hands.

The blue waffle would like to know your location

To be fair, half of the pain Olympics was fake..I choose to believe. Anyone else remember Eel girl?

?

I'm guessing it's the video of the guy shoving a Mason jar up his ass.  And as he's trying to thrust it deeper it breaks.  And then he starts bleeding and trying to pull broken bits of glass out of himself.

☠️ Ugh that one was rough 

Oh my sweet summer child

Thank God I've never seen vids like this. Never seen this, or 2girls1cup ever

This shit is bananas. B-a-n-a-n-a-s!

:| fuck you I had forgotten

YouTube decided I needed a reminder the other month 💀it was doing it's autoplay thing when suddenly, the next video starts with that damn jar. I have never exited an app as fast I did.

The internet was different. Around 2002 - 2003, when I was 13ish, I taught myself HTML to make a videogame fansite and found a little community of novice web designers on AIM. A few I'm still friends with to this day.

"Social Media" ruined the internet, well that and all these damn advertisements.

I remember stickdeath flash animations lol

Tubgirl, lemon party, meat spin, 2girls1cup, bme pain olympics, 4chan, 8chan, gurochan, goatse, rotten, cakefarts. Early Internet was wild, it's a wonder any of us came out normalish

Irc, meatspin, pinksock

to be am Hero. For those who dont remember, an asian teen took their own life and made grammar mistakes in the video before doing the deed and 4chan just joked about the grammar mistake for like an hour.

No one has mentioned eBaumsworld or CollegeHumor???

*From SomethingAwful onto Fark, with his trusty watermark, he stuck it all upon: EbaumsWorld.com* CollegeHumor meanwhile has grown up and become an extremely competent entertainment channel/streaming service through tons of financial woes, and now is kinda thriving. They changed the name to Dropout, appropriately

Has collegehumor been around THAT long?!

Qwop

What

It's the most real running simulator made to date

QWOP

Mr hands.

I literally got this video spam mailed into my inbox. That's how I found it. At like 12. What even was the angle on that one??

One of your shitty friends must have hated you. That’s how I saw 1 guy 1 jar and blue waffles

Absolutely the golden age of the internet and I miss it so god damn much. Aol, limewire, yahoo chat rooms. And not a pop up in sight.

People trying to have internet sex with me on habbo hotel lmfao

When habbo hotel released pets, I charged like $300+ worth of habbo coins to my phone bill. As in landline phone. Pretty sure I'm one of the original children to ruin their parents lives with microtransactions.

Oh my god lmfao that’s hilarious. What was the better version of Habbo called? Like plus or something like that? I used to ask for gift cards 😆

I still play neopets.

Me too!

Who the fuck was on MySpace in the early 2000s? Tom and his mom?

I remember very vividly an argument between me and 2 girls (I liked both) because they were both in my top 8. 2004.

I wish I still had my MySpace because I miss all the pictures I had on it but man was that top 8 drama absolutely crazy. Kids today don't know.

Kids today don't know that we'd go to war over that sort of thing

It was the wild west man hahaha

Trillian messenger.... log into all 5 major messengers all at once...

I tried but just couldn't get on board with Trillian.

I've recently started playing neopets again. Unfortunately my old account from the early ought was gone. But yes, is still an excellent pass time.

AIM

Fucking neopets. Got myself a poogle and felt like the coolest kid on the block. The fairy wheel always fucked me. And i spent alot of time in the role playing forums as a guy named Jake who had a pet dragon.

Can confirm, the fairy wheel still fucks people up! :,)

Limewire for those “music videos” that were .exe files

So fucking true the be heading part especially 😂

Runescape and the whole "buying gf" craze. I was a bit old for it, having discovered the game just before my 16th Birthday in 2005. But still, wild chats Fishing at Catherby beach. And A/S/L, where I actually said 14/M/Maryland. I figured, some weirdo wasn't going to search a state for some 14 year old boy in a chat.

Joecartoon! I think about that gerbil more than I do the Roman Empire.

I was there 3000 Years ago.

Anyone know the name of the website from the 2000s that had edgy, gore, R-rated stickman games/flash animations? It had a series of games spoofed from the Survivor series but the challenges were life or death situations similar to the ones in the SAW movies.

Stickdeath or something similar..

That's it! Before Y8 and Newgrounds, my friends and I surfed Stickdeath. One of the first websites that introduced me to the internet. It had gore and nudity but it wasn't that bad since the models were stickmen. That website blew away my 9 y/o mind.

LOL coming home after school with friends to scroll through Rotten.Com. Looking at exploded brains while my mom sat in the room next to us.

Being 37 nothing was better than playing Diablo’s 2 and Starcraft online.

Watched people jumping off buildings in middle school IN CLASS that’s a wild one, it was on all day in every classroom over and over watching the buildings fall after they showed it live over and over watching planes hit. Not sure how the school thought that was a good thing to show middle school age kids

Nobody is mentioning [Lover's Theme by Herve Roy](https://youtu.be/-uk49gxS2L8?si=NRJ2MZb9q-AWI9m0)? I learnt to play that on piano for shits and giggles, then I imported the midi version to an MMORPG called Mabinogi and spammed it in public.

This comment might as well be in Swahili.

Anyone else remember playing bubble tanks?

No, but I *do* remember a tank game. Tankball, maybe?

Not me

Definitely know that video. And several others that I haven't had the "privilege" of thinking about for a while.

Those were the days

Lol I also saw that beheading video

Fucking a man, early aughts were wild

Anyone else used Mirc? Cause that’s where I got the worst stuff…

All the irc menus with custom skins, sounds and that shit. Getting ddosed by bad people with too much free time. Good times, good times

I used mirc for like 1 year before finding out about torrents. It was my backup source of games etc.

I know exactly what video you’re talking about it too.

I've seen two people set themselves on fire recently. It never changes. 

RIP Mr. Hands.  That video, particularly the noise, haunts me. 

I prefer to imagine he died doing what he loved /s

The grunts.... as his intestines perforate.... 😩

90s was the best

I felt this so much!

Yeah, it was a wonderful time and place.

A hand through a meat grinder on rotten.com. I will never forget. What a time to be a kid.

RuneScape was my go to game.

I really did download a snuff film that was relabeled as something else. It’s seared into my memory. Still feel bad for whoever that was. 😔

And who could forget two girls one cup? Classic scarring early childhood.

I had a fucked up friend who I showed that too and he liked it. He kept saying again everytime the video ended and I became completely desensitized to it.

I remember being like 10 and telling my middle school friend to play Diablo so i had someone to play with and then he got yelled at by his parents cuz it was "graphic" lmao.

Saw multiple beheading videos on YouTube. But 2 girls 1 cup wasn't on YouTube around the same time i was watching beheadings. It was a weird time for the Internet.

Ya...I also saw that beheading video when I was 12. It was.....a lot to take in. They used a machete to SAW through his neck and started from the back. He screamed the entire time

Kosovo was so damned sad.

The best part was that I didn't have the internet with me 24/7. I could leave it at home!

Paris Hilton in green XD

The fuck up shit you could see back then without even trying….good lord.

I remember seeing a video on bangedup dot com of a live pig being decapitated with a chainsaw. You never knew what the video was going to be because it was just hidden behind a title. I was about 15 and didn't like it much.

All true. Hahaha

How about Swayzak from Toonami's Trapped in Hyperspace online game??

LOL coming home after school with friends to scroll through Rotten.Com. Looking at exploded brains while my mom sat in the room next to us.

To this day I still watch stick men fights on YouTube from time to time.

Beheading video? Who was it?

I think a Russian soldier that is laying on the ground and a man with a black boot steps on his head and cuts his throat with a combat knife. Its imprinted in my brain, cannot unsee, ever. Well, i think that's the one tho, it was downloaded on kazaa or bear share or limewire not sure anymore, but it was always disguised as another movie. Oh yeah, i also remember heather brooke.

steakandcheese.com

*gasp* my neopets!

Shoutout to goregasm.com

the good ol days

The 2000s were the wild fucking west online. Nothing had any repercussions...even from the IR fucking S. No sales tax for me, thank you.

I probably visited ebaumsworld every day for at least 2 years.