My experience was that early 2000s is when pron access took off. Late 90s still needed to go to the back room at the video store to find most porn. Certainly, the vast majority of high schoolers in 97, 98, and 99 did not have access or know how to acquire softcore porn (let alone hardcore) that a 10 year old can find in 5 minutes today.
Usenet was the place to get porn and only the 1% super nerds knew how to access that. They also tended to be more on the loner side, so they weren't handing out gangbang video access to all the other childrenz.
I don't remember pulling porn off Napster, but certainly did off Limewire. Limewire was created in 2000.
I don't think I even watched pr0n with any regularity until like 2006 (23 years old). Once I started having actual sex (late), suddenly pr0n became significantly more interesting. Before that, from 1996-2005 it was just the occasional Skinemax and thinking about girls I knew. I still kinda prefer that last one, even today.
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So I don't know how it was in 1999. I will say that high school kids were absolutely fucking depraved in 1997-1999 when I was there. It seemed less so in 99 than 97. I always wondered if HS was always that depraved, or if it was a new thing, because the parental generation seemed to have no idea what I was talking about. I think there's a good chance the rampant depravity in 97 was due to the internet.
All I really have to go by in terms of the depravity being a "new thing" was that when the Fall 97 semester started, all the school administrators seemed totally shocked by it. First week of school there was grafitti EVERYWHERE (and this was in a Nice White Middle-Class Area) and the grafitti was all profane sexual stuff like "Goldman Sucks Cock" (he was the HS principal). So that was a nice way to start high school, really set the tone for all the bullshit that followed.
At the end of this post is a Wowhead guide on Chromie time. It looks like you need one character at 50 to be able to start it at level 10, otherwise the world will scale kinda like it did in BFA (?) (SS below).
Exiles Reach is the new 1- 10 zone and forced for your fist character to 50. I am not sure if that means you have to run it once, reguardless, or if you have a old character at 50, it allows you to skip it:
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You aren't forced to level in just BFA though (for your first character to 50):
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Chromie Time is a new feature added with the Shadowlands Pre-Patch that allows players to level from 10 to 50 in any zone they desire. Activating Chromie Time changes the player to a different phase from players outside of it, which causes all quests and objectives from Vanilla through Legion...
www.wowhead.com
Is it just me or does this seem kind of over-complicated? If I were them I would have just made all of the expansions 10-50 and made the starting island optional versus the traditional 1-10 n00b areas.
I guess I don't mind the n00b island since it's a new thing I haven't done before, but I really wanted to do that Tirisfal starting path.
Blizzard must be hell bent on killing people's nostalgia. To this day you can start a character in EQ and beat up the same n00b yards and go to Crushbone or Blackburrow just like you could in 1999.
In any case, I'm getting the vibe that "planning out" my leveling route isn't gonna work out. I'll do the noob island and wing it the rest of the way. I am gonna try to visit Netherstorm and those last 3 Wrath zones before 30 though. For 30-48...I don't know. Maybe the Cata desert zone (Uldum?) 30-35 and then just like grind dungeons/battlegrounds for 13 levels. I like Legion but I played it to death. I'll book it over to Shadowlands soon as I get 48 and then come back to complain.
