• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        The first five digits of mine was a local zip code. Not quite my zip code but less than twenty miles away. I think they may have handed them out from the nearest tymnet node. There was a university there as well.

        • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 hours ago

          I remember using a program called “Neotrace” to find the general geographic area a user was in based on their IP.

          That freaked people out in the 90’s.