I grew up when before radio shack went out of business and had a Sinclair 2000... then a vic20 and Amiga 500. I used to play BBS games over dial-up and swapped floppy discs playing D&D...

The weird thing is I remember having the Sinclair 2000 but now it was claimed to never been released....

we had chat rooms in the BBS days too and I would talk to many people. Those days there was zero censorship. That is what it needs to be now in my opinion. I had the 2000 while in North Carolina and the Amigas in Nevada. The Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) I still believe is in use today. It is very simple, but it requires an uncompressed line so the full bandwidth 64K or 56K can be utilized.

Yes an old phone line from back in the day was a 64K path and that is how you could hear a pin drop.. today it is compressed codec's on cell phones and such.

back on point...

with the BBS's that was social media. We did not call it that then. However lots of people would log into BBS's and it turned into the Internet. Fast forward to just a year ago I helped shutdown one of the very old channel bank hubs that used to connect end users to the BBS (internet). Actually 2 central offices where I am at. BBS turned into AOL and people would pay a subscription fee.

waaaay back then I used to talk to many people and I would ask questions and people would talk back in huge chat rooms that were spread all across the USA in cities. Even then the government and powers to be could see what everyone was saying back and forth when connected to big frames...

If a criminal organization had anyone worth any salt they would stay away from the public internet and that dark web nonsense. They would set up a channel bank in a wealthy man's house somewhere and send their people 3g, 4g, and now 5g cradle points and a FXS converter to dial up. Such a simple thing to setup and in today's world they would only need 1 phones number to advertise and give that one number 56-64k channels up to how many people would call in.

I have worked my whole life and stay in the light and have never desired to chase money or fame. I asked God when I left the hell hole I came out of that would like to marry the woman I am married to and have a job and kids... God will give us what we ask for.. We have to see that He heard us and be content.