Post #1510903
2026-04-22 01:29 UTC
Assuming that as an older millennial, I’m the parent you’re talking about, no. Porn almost never went on those. VHS and paper magazines mostly. Computer porn would be downloaded to a convoluted folder depth with misleading names on your hard drive, and would never be placed on removable media unless you had a CD burner, which was rare as fuck (but they did exist).
Seriously though, people used to make genuine mazes out of nested folders.
If you were in the era of dial up BBS systems, you still were far more likely to use a hard drive than a floppy. The reason floppies weren’t used is that even at low resolution with still images, not much would fit on the things, super inconvenient. Shareware, sure. Porn? Not likely.
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@northface@lemmy.ml 2026-04-22 05:41
I can confirm the existance of said mazes of nested folders. Also renaming files to have the wrong extension for the file type, to prevent anyone else from finding them.
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@lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2026-04-22 12:07
I used floppies. The only PC in the house with interet was shared by 5 people and I didn’t trust that the folder maze method would actually work. I eventually set up our old PC in my bedroom but I didn’t have Internet on it. On that one I hid my porn folder in the program files for Microsoft Money.