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by yencabulator 310 days ago
Historically, source IP was a lot more readily available. Every IRC user's source IP was visible, every UNIX login session's source IP was visible, and lots of people hosted their own websites which meant they saw your IP address there too. The implications of it used to be more like having an email address from a specific university. Skype happened relatively early in the world of online privacy.