another site that wasn't blocked was azalea's dolls, tho i think other doll/character maker sites like rinmaru games and doll divine WERE blocked, which was interesting. i remember using that in my free time at school quite a bit.
Ah, what were those "doll sites" about? I'm not familiar
another site that wasn't blocked was azalea's dolls, tho i think other doll/character maker sites like rinmaru games and doll divine WERE blocked, which was interesting. i remember using that in my free time at school quite a bit.
Ah, what were those "doll sites" about? I'm not familiar
flash games based around making characters, i liked to use them to make concept designs for OCs or just to mess around and see what i could come up with :D
In my school, the computers don't block any websites so when i finish what we have to do, i just watch youtube
That's pretty gnarly-ours (IE the sole school computer lab, we mostly didn't have 1-1 devices) was still in the process of blocking sites so I got away with a decent bit haha. I remember being able to look at Google images before that was blocked-the kiddos below me had no idea that was unblocked once upon a time <_< XD
And Youtube has a lot of great access to obscure soundtracks and such. The Tales of Symphonia soundtrack is a recent fave.
Interesting, though I guess I can see why-as scholarly and insightful as this site (and its forum can get), there's plenty of legit sus worthy content too. I think this happened to me with Amazon in our computer lab-I used to read reviews for fun and I looked at reviews for some gorey horror media and BOOM site then banned. Someone else got Google Images banned I think. As for this site, too bad, this is legit one of the few "traditional" forums that is still very active and isn't bland/sterilized like modern social media.
I had a Lemony Snicket book forum I visited a lot during study hall in the 2000s, sounds like a lot of people here found their own accessible fan forums at school. I don't think the boomers much got the internet then and only knew to block the "obvious" stuff. Fun times XD
Post by surrealkangaroo on Aug 16, 2023 1:22:59 GMT
You Tube was blocked when I was in high school (I graduated in 2008). I wanted to show a video of a Billiards ball floating in mercury as part of a report in chemistry class, but that was a no go. Right off of the top of my head I can’t think of anything that was like “how did that make it through” but I remember going to IMDb and Snopes.
Their was a flash game site called Devily or Devley or something like that, it bypassed the school filter that had a whole bunch of sites blocked and we were able to play non school friendly flash games in class. Not long after the word got out a teacher noticed a kid play a violent game and got it put on the block list. A few years later, a kid in my science class showed me how to bypass the entire school filter in general.
You Tube was blocked when I was in high school (I graduated in 2008). I wanted to show a video of a Billiards ball floating in mercury as part of a report in chemistry class, but that was a no go. Right off of the top of my head I can’t think of anything that was like “how did that make it through” but I remember going to IMDb and Snopes.
Ah, IMDB was banned at my school, I think? I don't honestly recall since I didn't get into that one until after high school. Youtube was allowed because our boomer admin/staff didn't really "get it" yet I think. A number of schools I have worked at, if not all of them, surprisingly still allowed Youtube because of the sheer amount of valuable educational content found on it. No other "educational substitute" even came close. I loved Snopes in late high school, don't recall if it was banned, probably was TBH, I just mostly used it at home. Extremely fun site (I'm partial to the Disney legends page), happy to see it referenced here!
Fanfiction.net wasn't blocked on my school's wifi somehow
Was able to get around our block of THAT site by accessing fansites/forums that had their own fiction on them haha. I found one Twilight one that wasn't blocked, and I also found the Lemony Snicket forum that had fan posted stories. I even printed out some fiction from the Twilight one in late high school for personal consumption and had to very, very quickly discard of it when I realized it was still hidden in a school binder and I was about to do my yearly disposal of all binders at home XD
Their was a flash game site called Devily or Devley or something like that, it bypassed the school filter that had a whole bunch of sites blocked and we were able to play non school friendly flash games in class. Not long after the word got out a teacher noticed a kid play a violent game and got it put on the block list. A few years later, a kid in my science class showed me how to bypass the entire school filter in general.
VPN? I don't think anyone at our school was tech savvy enough to figure out how to access/use one of those in our sole computer lab. VERY small school, mind you. Or how common they were in the 2000s?
We got basic laptops late in high school (maybe starting year 2?) to type papers, but we had to share them with the whole school so we didn't have regular access, and I don't even know if we could use the wifi on them at all.
I worked in education for a while and some of the lengths students would go to cheat or avoid work were honestly pretty impressive. They would spend as much time and energy getting out of work as actually doing the work. I was mostly pen and pencil and paper in high school (or laptops with unknown wifi status), so the most distraction I had was doodling on everything <_< Or sneaking the occasional game magazine or manga. I think some people did sneak Solitaire though.
Oh and THIS will be telling of my #edgelord phase in middle school but I was able to access a Watership Down fansite with tons of bloody screenshots from the movie which I most definitely shared with other students to be #ohsoedgy #notlikeothergirls <_< Maybe some Plague Dogs stuff too, I don't remember. My own mother bought me that one as a gift when I was in middle school and she had NO idea of the content within ha!
Oh! And not necessarily "sus," but I did print a bunch of information on the Lion King/Kimba controversy and sneaked some of it when bored in school.
