[eggoa]

In the library of my high school, circa 1995, there were a couple computers for student use. There was a sign near them saying "No Surfing".

[RankingMember]

"Bess can't go there"

[derwiki]

Bess blocked sites about evolution I tried to visit when I was preparing for a biology class debate. Luckily, the local ISP’s proxy was dead simple to configure in Netscape 4 and got around Bess.

[kirse]

What a throwback. Used to run cgi-proxy to tiptoe around ol' Bessie.

[doubled112]

I wonder how many kids got their start learning to get around that thing. It wasn't very good at what it did.