I'd put yt under ph, but only just. Everything else, ph paved the way. And tbf, another porn site probably cleared the way for yt, though I couldn't tell you which one.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember the first time I saw the phrase "streaming video" was a website called "teen steam" (which I desperately wanted a credit card to access) in the late 90s / early 2000s.

I'm sure you can guess what the content of that site was and I was sure that "streaming" was some new sex act I had yet to discover and wanted very much to find out. Sadly I was too young, too poor and logged onto the Internet in the school library at lunch time so it was always going to be a long shot.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha I remember that time too well. Luckily I had a CC and I bought everything on the net back then and was so fascinated by it. Typing a number in and getting stuff. I ordered crap from the other side of the world, it was incredible. Yes, porn included. How could one resist that temptation back then, I was 12 or so 😁

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How did you obtain the CC and the money on it at 12??

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Might've been 14, I don't really remember exactly. And it was the CC attached to my company's bank-acc so the bank wasn't that nitpicky. It were simpler times in many aspects. But the fascination of online-shopping only grew slightly less great in my 30s 😁

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