In school we had a private Fantasy Football league on Yahoo that was only open to pals. There was a really stupid bit where a mysterious team was entered into the league called Smooth Bricks and it was managed by someone called Ben Brown (named after the newsreader it turned out) who none of us knew and he kept posting details of the other managers in the chat/forum thing and it really spooked all of us who thought we’d been hacked and that a cyber criminal had found out where we all lived and who our parents were and stuff.
It turned out to be an early example of “catfishing” where one of the circle of pals in the league had just created a second account for the bants and I just remembered it and it made me laugh a lot that we were all so genuinely freaked out by it instead of just thinking it was someone dicking around.
When I was 10-11 I used to go on a chat room called Girl Land, my mum would sit next to me to make sure I wasn’t talking to any weirdos. I’m not sure what she was worried about a chat room for children called Girl Land attracting dodgy types for? I remember the website taking about 20 minutes to load
Trying to watch the trailer for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
Waiting about two hours for the trailer to be even half way to loading, then someone using the phone in the house and being back to square one.
