I was stuck with dial-up for so long, I missed newgrounds and most the flash era thanks to cheap parents who thought the Internet was good enough for checking their email for ten minutes a day. I could only check some of that stuff out in my high school science lab.
I remember reading a chat log on the now dead bash.org where some guy's programmer dad was staunchly anti-piracy. But one day his son caught him cracking and making copies of windows. His son was like WTF DAD I thought you were against that? And his dad simply said, "Fuck microsoft."