• yamanii@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It was because there were all kinds of tacky and terrible looking emoticon packs back then, pretty much everyone agreed you looked like a dork. Nowadays they are used to produce shitposts.

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      8 months ago

      Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.

      Google dawt cawm… Fun smily face pack 4 chat on yahoo and aim Download Ooh, desktop strippers? Sweet! I’ll go ahead and get that too. Oh no way, a purple ape assistant! Sweet, lemme git that. I’ll be ur buddy bonzi.

      Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.

      At least I think that’s what they did.