My mom definitely wouldn’t be able to provide informed consent to half the stuff I was doing on the internet in high school and middle school even if I told her about it.
She worried, I’m sure, but between speaking next to zero english and the novelty of www in the early 00’s, best she could do was threaten to take the computer if things got too weird.
It feel like nowadays, it'd have resulted in a lawsuit, but at least threatening lawyer letters.
edit: Archive.org link to the site. With a visitor counter and cringy teeny-sounding English ;) https://web.archive.org/web/20020522193227/http://home.foni....
For anyone interested, this was strictly beta, by a group of crackers who said they’d stop releasing anything as soon as the game was done. I was one of 4 or 5 people who’d get advanced notification in IRC to upload the newest patches etc. so there’d be multiple mirrors available for the announcement.
On that note, my sister can't wrap her head around the fact that people can have multiple bank accounts and many of them are completely free.
She looks at my collection of cards and says "omg the Finanzamt will get you!".
Just wait until they get you for making money off TikTok videos lol