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eggoa | 2 years ago

In the library of my high school, circa 1995, there were a couple computers for student use. There was a sign near them saying "No Surfing".

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RankingMember|2 years ago

"Bess can't go there"

derwiki|2 years ago

Bess blocked sites about evolution I tried to visit when I was preparing for a biology class debate. Luckily, the local ISP’s proxy was dead simple to configure in Netscape 4 and got around Bess.

kirse|2 years ago

What a throwback. Used to run cgi-proxy to tiptoe around ol' Bessie.

doubled112|2 years ago

I wonder how many kids got their start learning to get around that thing. It wasn't very good at what it did.