From VHS to Neo-pronouns: How the Internet Helped to Change Identity! 5 min read The Wild West of the Web Retrospectively, that revolutionary promise offered by 'the web' in the late 90s went above many peoples heads! Surfing the net made no sense, but honestly, the wording made it sound cool! What tantalised curiosity were those bizarre secret agent-like codes starting with 'www' all over the place. I still remember the cardboard cut-out of Carol Vorderman standing in our local library, luring in the unready. This was years before her cheekbones and mammary glands had mysteriously swollen! I.T savvy librarians frustratedly instructed the older generations, as well as any computerphobe who wanted to press a few buttons. Every family had its digital pioneer — people who dived headfirst into the unregulated chaos of peer-to-peer platforms like Napster, LimeWire, and Kazaa. Piracy was poorly regulated, but yet greatly hindered by cruel dial up speeds! P2P and Pirate...
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