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

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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

what captures? What am I looking at here?

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month 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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What was x.com back then? Porn?

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] crypto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Captures from an Internet Archive sweep of the web. There are so many captures since the domain has been active since the 90s and was part of a great many scans.

Browse the captures for yourself if you like

[–] drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

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