I Googled for the lyrics to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and up came [this ancient HTML document from the days of Web 2.0](https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/meanGrinch.html).
I’ve noticed that Google will often point me to these very old, rudimentary webpages that are 20 years old or so, and often hosted at American universities like MIT.
So my question is, why do these websites exist in the first place, and why do they still exist?
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Places like MIT took pride in giving students and personnel freedom to express themselves, especially if that involved using technologies. But freedom was key. I was there in the 80s and one the lab servers had a publicly available folder for porn images. Actually two folders, “m” and “f” . M was mostly gay stuff, pretty hardcore , not just beautiful pics of naked men… it felt free and wild, it was a very stimulating environment…
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