was a kid. I wasn't even a teenager yet. And I was like, oh, if I have, it was, there are things called like, people might remember these AOL, alternate AOL accounts, and you'd log in with these like codes that you traded for software. So you were pirating, they were probably stolen credit card numbers. And none of this mean like meant anything to anyone using it who was like my age 10 or 11, just waiting for the dial up signal to hit and then being like, Hey, is anybody want some of these stolen credit card…
I actually stopped myself when I'm telling the stories because it was all just kind of like I was a kid. I wasn't even a teenager yet. And I was like, oh, if I have, it was, there are things called like, people might remember these AOL, alternate AOL accounts, and you'd log in with these like codes that you traded for software. So you were pirating, they were probably stolen credit card numbers. And none of this mean like meant anything to anyone using it who was like my age 10 or 11, just waiting for the dial up signal to hit and then being like, Hey, is anybody want some of these stolen credit card numbers? It's also that I could download, you know, 5% of a game that would never work or something like that. But that's the experience that the internet began with for me. And so it was already from a place of darkness.
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... internet's kind of toxic habits back to AOL chat rooms in the mid 90s. I mean, what kind of memories have you got of that era then, like when you first discovered the web and got online and what was it I actually stopped myself when I'm telling the stories because it was all just kind of like I was a kid. I wasn't even a teenager yet. And I was like, oh, if I have, it was, there are things called like, people might remember these AOL, alternate AOL accounts, and you'd log in with these like codes that you traded for software. So you were pirating, they were probably stolen credit card numbers. And none of this mean like meant anything to anyone using it who was like my age 10 or 11, just waiting for the dial up signal to hit and then being like, Hey, is anybody want some of these stolen credit card numbers? It's also that I could download, you know, 5% of a game that would never work or something like that. But that's the experience that the internet began with for me. And so it was already from a place of darkness. you're like reminiscing fondly and you're like, Oh, well, that was all illegal. And, you know, probably the people I was chatting with weren't the best. And those conversations all felt like ...