did you have unrestricted internet access as a child?

[lamy's sacred sleep]

porn addicted from like 12, shit is ass.
stupid ass crunchroll video

anyway
internet access from like 8
unrestricted, but I didn't really do too much other than be addicted to youtube
webnovels were all i read for a few years. better than not reading at all imo

 

[ilvgore]

yeah sadly.
I was exploited by adults on children games which i didn't realise and i would send them explicit pictures.. poor attention hungry child
or i would watch porn at age 7 or those gore mlp videos xD
and also one time i looked up someting on the wiiu and it was really embarrassing...
ORR ommgg happy tree friends xD and kissxsis
or dokuro chan
haha by a guy on clash royale he was 19 and i was 8 or 9 or smth he developed my fetish further and one time this guy called me and my father picked up and he got so furios with me lol
i definitely am so damaged but luckily my self esteem got better :D

 

[WoodenHoe]

i would consider it pretty restricted. i was allowed to use the internet during the day, but i had an app that would show my parents my search history and stuff, so what i could do on it was pretty limited lol

my mom would also go through my phone at night. i didnt even know until one morning she yelled at me about something someone else said in text

Looking back at all this, do you feel protected or micromanaged?

 

[Forveleth]

The internet did not exist when I was a child. Then we got dialupl and that was restricting on its own.

yeah sadly.
I was exploited by adults on children games which i didn't realise and i would send them explicit pictures.. poor attention hungry child
or i would watch porn at age 7 or those gore mlp videos xD
and also one time i looked up someting on the wiiu and it was really embarrassing...
ORR ommgg happy tree friends xD and kissxsis
or dokuro chan
haha by a guy on clash royale he was 19 and i was 8 or 9 or smth he developed my fetish further and one time this guy called me and my father picked up and he got so furios with me lol
i definitely am so damaged but luckily my self esteem got better :D

Happy Tree Friends. Good lord why did I ever watch that stuff. It was funny at the time but dude that was messed up.

 

[Apathy79]

Well I was born in 1979 so much of childhood didn't have internet. We got dial up access around the start of high school in the early 90s. But then it was pretty bad. Like porn was 2kb grainy images, not HD videos. I can't recall seeing gore until I'd left school. In fact, it probably wasn't worth restricting internet for anyone until around 1998. I didn't even have an email address until 1996 and I feel like I was one of the first (still have the same one now btw). I think you really needed to be born in the mid 80s or later to have a childhood where unrestricted internet meant something.

 

[dead dav]

I'm that old that the Internet wasn't even invented when I was a child