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Oh my! This is a blast from the past. I was a kid, probably 10 years old or something, and I had a LEGO MovieMaker webcam. I was trying to set it up as a sort of security/monitoring camera for the back door of the small business my parents ran. I remember using this software and supposedly getting it working.

I invited my parents to come see what I had done, and somehow typed the website wrong and ended up on a spanish-language porn site. I could not hit the back button fast enough. Possibly one of the most embarrassing memories of my childhood.

I have no idea what my parents thought I was up to.

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Heh. Hilarious story, thank you! Camarades.com had just about everything, from people being born to people dying and everything in between. It was a pretty honest (sometimes brutally honest) slice of life.

One of the most popular cams for years was an old person that was extremely ill and that rarely moved but he had pretty big fanclub and he thought it was quite funny that he was more famous on what eventually became his deathbed than he had ever been while he was still active. After he died his family asked to remove all the images and close the account which of course we did. Makes you wonder if all those people wishing him well over the years kept him going a bit longer. What is interesting is that if you did this today I'm pretty sure the jerks would drown out the nice people by a considerable margin, of course there were jerks back then as well, but on the whole the internet seemed to be a much nicer place to hang out than it is today.

Not sure if you're aware, but it's interesting that you mention Lego as the person you're responding to once accidentally bought literally tons of bulk Lego and later designed an automated Lego sorting machine. It's a fun read:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/

Haha I know that pain.

When I was a kid I asked my mom to print me out Grand Theft Auto cheats from Gamewinners.com while she was in work.

Somehow I got the address wrong and she wanted to know why I wanted to print out pages and pages from a site dedicated to men cheating on their wives. Got there in the end though and I still have some of those GTA cheats memorised.

Your mom might have another family in the Greater Toronto Area now, just so you are aware!

My then-wife was watching over my shoulder once as I typed something into the address bar. “Freshmeat.net” auto-completed, drawing a suspicious look from her.

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