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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was in second grade when the school district started thinking about providing internet access for a few computers. You could just add a period at the end of a URL to get around the filters. No idea how or why it worked, but I told everyone. Those were the days.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

My guess is that it's because of the root zone