No smartass replies I’m serious I need to know I’m doing a paper.

Edit: Here I am being a shithead trying to come up with the dumbest question possible and people are getting all informative on me.

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[–] 26 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It was a weird time to like computers. Nobody had an antivirus, and if they didn’t it never got updated. You’d just take floppy disks around to your friend’s house and plug them in. Windows gave everything admin rights.

To be honest, I was using a computer for about five years before the internet happened and I never got a virus.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Windows gave everything admin rights

    To be more clear, until NT Windows didn't even have that concept. XP/2000 was probably the first Windows to even pretend to do anything like that. 95/98/ME had a password at login and you could literally just hit escape to not do that and that was Microsoft security. I don't think 3.x even did that much.

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