Where did you first find CP?

[stalker]

Lotta freedom, but slow as shit.  Like several minutes to load an image that was less than 100 kb.

Yeah, or music. 40 paid minutes for a single mp3 of a mediocre quality.

[frienddlyuncle]

I'm a newgen, to me it was Matrix, on this decade. Reading all these threads about kids in the 2000s finding it easily on the clearnet sounds surreal to me since I didn't have access to the internet until 2014 and even then I was still a kid exploring but not really curious about cp, or even porn at all.

[Tiberian]

I actually stumbled into the material by accident while browsing porn websites in the early 2000s. This was probably before the creation of ad blockers, so some websites would push popups. One of those popups showed pictures of naked children and it peaked my curiosity. My reaction to it at first was being offended, then guilty that I may have enjoyed looking at the images. This pattern continued for a while after, but eventually I was actively searching for that type of material.

[User8737]

I actually stumbled into the material by accident while browsing porn websites in the early 2000s. This was probably before the creation of ad blockers, so some websites would push popups. One of those popups showed pictures of naked children and it peaked my curiosity. My reaction to it at first was being offended, then guilty that I may have enjoyed looking at the images. This pattern continued for a while after, but eventually I was actively searching for that type of material.

Why is CP so easily found when not looking for it and so hard to find to when actively searching for it? Or is that just my experience?

[TooLittleTime]

I actually stumbled into the material by accident while browsing porn websites in the early 2000s. This was probably before the creation of ad blockers, so some websites would push popups. One of those popups showed pictures of naked children and it peaked my curiosity. My reaction to it at first was being offended, then guilty that I may have enjoyed looking at the images. This pattern continued for a while after, but eventually I was actively searching for that type of material.

Why is CP so easily found when not looking for it and so hard to find to when actively searching for it? Or is that just my experience?

Well, he was talking about the early 2000's. Now I would say it is only moderately hard. If you can't find it now, your doing it wrong *

* My phrase of the day.

[zergrush111]

I'm a newgen, to me it was Matrix, on this decade. Reading all these threads about kids in the 2000s finding it easily on the clearnet sounds surreal to me since I didn't have access to the internet until 2014 and even then I was still a kid exploring but not really curious about cp, or even porn at all.

Dude pre-2014 internet was insane. Up tell like 2017-18 you could regularly find catgoddess and siberian mouse videos on the internet. Hell, even vlad and candydoll models werent hard to find either just openly on google. Pre-teen nudism pics were on most chan boards, even 4chan tell like 2013 and once again on the front page of google. I sometimes wonder if the pedophilia rate will go down with these restrictions and it makes me hopeful there will be kids who might have the pedo interest but naturally outgrow it instead of falling like i did. When the strongest orgasms of your life were had in your teen years, to softcore to hardcore child pornography the interest in kids gets locked heavily in your mind. Its something you want to keep chasing and going back to. So much pain and misery would have been avoided if i didnt get exposed to this so young.

[OneLove]

back in the day, the news reported a guy getting arrested for possession, then the newscaster actually provided the source- the old yahoo newsgroups. There was more cp than you could shake a hat at.

[radagast37]

back in the day, the news reported a guy getting arrested for possession, then the newscaster actually provided the source- the old yahoo newsgroups. There was more cp than you could shake a hat at.

It was the same with me, those news broadcasts not only provide the specific search engine (in my case was the BitTorrent program Ares, does anybody remember it?) but also gave you the key words to acess all kinds of CP content, ironically in an effort to dissuade you to perform those kind of searches, those idiots.

[TooLittleTime]

This was common. Usenet group names made the news frequently

[zergrush111]

This was common. Usenet group names made the news frequently

This was how i found harder stuff back in my 4chan days because i just didnt know what tor was. Except it wasnt from the news. I found this usenet group because i was looking for family nudism and family nudism is basically legal child porn so the people who share it had a watermark with the site on it. I remember i didnt have a card or any ability to pay for it but i could preview the pics. So i was jerking off to like 65x100 pixel pictures, zooming wayyyy in on my ipod touch trying to see some girls butt or whatever lol. There was one group where i swear, to this day, i saw lanemodel.tv nude. It was the set where she was in purple shorts. I searched LSmodels, i searched any other models that might have just looked like her but had the same quality and i couldnt find any. It had to be her. And its insane because i have combed the darkweb for 13 years looking for it again, and could never find it. I posted even monero rewards for anyone who can come up with it. Nothing. I seriously think the photographer leaked them but they were all deleted by like 2012.

The usenet group i found ended up getting completely and totally wiped around that time too, like 2012-13. And then i found tor as a replacement.

[OneLove]

It is my understanding that at one time, there were actual cp magazines that one could purchase. I'm sure there must be some older gentlemen out there hording them under the floorboards and covered with a throw rug.

[LarrySexton]

I actually stumbled into the material by accident while browsing porn websites in the early 2000s. This was probably before the creation of ad blockers, so some websites would push popups. One of those popups showed pictures of naked children and it peaked my curiosity. My reaction to it at first was being offended, then guilty that I may have enjoyed looking at the images. This pattern continued for a while after, but eventually I was actively searching for that type of material.

this is how I discovered cp too. When I was around 10-11 i remember this popups with cp clicking on it would bring you to a site with blurry images. clicking on an image would open more popups and more sites and popups. When I found out you could find this stuff on kaza or similar it changed everything for me. By then i was in my early teens and my curiosity for younger girls had only grown.

[on the rocks]

Oh god, those pop-up sites were maddening.  I do remember them well.  Lost count of how many times they crashed Internet Explorer.
But they eventually lead me to an early sharing site called "Ranchi".  And once I found that, it was a proverbial game changer.

[LewisCarrol_Jr]

"Ranchi".  Now there is a name I have not heard in a long, long time.
Acutally I was never there, but I sure have heard it talked about.

[on the rocks]

Yeah Ranchi is where I learned about downloading multi-part compressed files in order to partake in the content being shared.
It was sort of like a modern CP sharing site in that regard, but far less organized.  Every thread just added to the 'top' and nothing bumped up the list when a thread was replied to, so there was a lot of scrolling involved.  The format motivated one to check it every day in order to keep up with what had been posted.
I want to say Ranchi migrated to a couple different urls during its lifespan.  This was pre-darkweb after all.  I recall it disappearing a few times only to resurface.  But finding it again involved navigating all those wretched link sites that polluted on topic at the time.

Ranchi's ultimate legacy, I think, is that's where I and countless others learned about Tor and the darkweb in the mid-2000's.  Some cats on Ranchi wrote very easy to follow guides for setting up Tor and there was enough crowd sourcing involved that one would begin to trust that it wasn't another scam.

For some context, woven into all those useless link sites at the time were things called "CP Dialers". I guess I can best describes them as malware that claimed to give one access to an archive of CP pictures.  Sketchy as hell and from a modern perspective, outright dangerous.  Because even if one of them was actually legit, how hard would it be for an anti or and LEO to make their own, put it out there, and watch the fish jump into the net?

With enough 'trusted' names on Ranchi endorsing the move to Tor, I think that gave people like me the confidence to go for it.  And then watch even more hours disappear down the CP chute.