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by ohyeshedid 2593 days ago
That's really slick.

The original Juno ad server proxied the ads from the internet to the email client, and the proxy was wide open for several months. The first time I ever accessed the open internet at home was by dialing into the email service and bouncing through the proxy. I believe it was closed due to it being shared in the letters section of a hacker zine.