[hammock]

This is peak 90s. Skifree, toasters, "under construction" gifs on your Geocities homepage, and random fun plugins and add-ons that you would download from Tucows.

Maximalist and absurdist digital culture that is all but gone now.

[donatj]

I would download sooo many random programs from the internet back then, and rarely were they viruses. I also didn't have online banking and my internet connection wasn't always on. The attack surface was just so much smaller. Like what, were they going to steal my collection of gifs?

I did once get a virus that made a long distance call to Japan with my modem before I realized what was happening and unplugged the phone cable.