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Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by azalemeth »

john-doe wrote: post #4

On a related note, FUFME is still online: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/

I get the distinct feeling that website might be very useful prior art in any forthcoming teledildonics patent cases. Also, the "box cover" art is amazing. From their FAQ:

> Can I use FuckU-FuckMe for anal or oral sex? > >Certainly! But be sure to set the preferences to oral/anal for best results. Ensure first that these acts are legal in your state. We cannot be held responsible for the legal consequences of extracoital use.

Is that really true -- are there places in america where either sex toys or anal/oral sex either are not legal, or were not legal in ~1997?

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by nsp »

azalemeth wrote: post #7
john-doe wrote: post #4

On a related note, FUFME is still online: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/

I get the distinct feeling that website might be very useful prior art in any forthcoming teledildonics patent cases. Also, the "box cover" art is amazing . From their FAQ: > Can I use FuckU-FuckMe for anal or oral sex? > >Certainly! But be sure to set the preferences to oral/anal for best results. Ensure first that these acts are legal in your state. We cannot be held responsible for the legal consequences of extrac…

Sodomy - which I believe legally was essentially 'non vaginal sex' was illegal in Texas until 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by Jugurtha »

The site reads from another era. There are some things like "Fravia+" that sometimes feel from an era that never existed. One person from Greece contacted me on Facebook, of all places, because I had something on Fravia+. I grew fond of that person and almost met them in Athens when I went to Greece (to meet another person I knew on the internet after a week of meetings in Paris where I said: "screw it, let's just do it"), because we shared one bit of an almost lost memory of the internet. It truly is special.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by kingcharles »

I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also, they were FREE. I lost all mine once they introduced the $200/year registration fee, after, I believe, Unilever sent them 19,000 registration requests for each of their trademarks.

Despite domains being free, most of the web sites I would visit were simply hosted on IPs. I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. That was my DNS in 1994.

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