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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29523929

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what captures? What am I looking at here?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's the internet archive which takes snapshots of websites.

You're looking at the website x.com waaaay back in 1997, where they said they aren't nearly the worst website on the internet. As opposed to now, where it is a cesspool of toxicity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What was x.com back then? Porn?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

x.com was PayPal before it got renamed and then the donain was unused until the twitter fiasko.

[–] drrodneymckay_ 4 points 3 days ago

it was one of the first online only banks back around 2000

[–] crypto 3 points 4 days ago

It was not nearly the worst place on the web!!!