Back in the AOL days, the first iterations of Google had built-in white pages lookup, for everyone, where if you put in a landline phone number you’d get their name and address. One of my first experiences on the internet as a kid was talking people from AOL chatrooms into sending me their phone number, googling it, and sending back their name and address with some nonsense about being from the FBI. Really freaked people out.
Back in the AOL days, the first iterations of Google had built-in white pages lookup, for everyone, where if you put in a landline phone number you’d get their name and address. One of my first experiences on the internet as a kid was talking people from AOL chatrooms into sending me their phone number, googling it, and sending back their name and address with some nonsense about being from the FBI. Really freaked people out.