nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqz06laf0rhhwzd7h0y303hfp6e7r29e8p6vyl2yr7nv5uefdgtcfsrj4jyj nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpw00ha54780wynpmsmktmk2g8ldsndq40wg3jyul7fqrurqghf6qepjlhn Spying/telemetry wasn't a thing (outside of stuff like NSAKey, the Clipper chip and NSA forcing weaker crypto, etc) to the extent it was today until Edward Snowden's leaks, followed by Windows 10's telemetry and the rise in warrants/arrests from tech companies snitching on users.

That's when everyone began to get worried. Especially as the big impact of Edward Snowden's leaks wasn't that people began to give a shit about online privacy (of course they didn't), but tech companies began to start things like using HTTPS everywhere and forcing the web onto it, as in the pre-Snowden era you could still browse most of the web in HTTP.

But stuff like MS-DOS was a pain to get internet/networking in (TSRs and drivers anyone?), and even now the servers that any old software would phone into are probably long since shut down mostly.