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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the casual

criminalist. This is one of our casual criminalist shorts. It's called the Red Room. It's all

about the Red Room. What happens here, as always, is our fine script writer, Callum, has

written me something. I'm going to read it. I'm going to add my thoughts as we go through

it together. And we'll hopefully learn something. Perhaps it'll be scary. It'll definitely

be crimes. Let's jump in. Cast your mind back through time and space to a distant place

called Light 90s cyberspace. I remember late 90s cyberspace at the internet school around

this time. It was very, very cool. And now you look back and realize how wildly limited

it was. But there were games. Games were exciting. Play games online. I was very nerdy. This

strange world was the digital world west of I saw websites and dodgy AOL chat rooms. Compared

to the polished web of today, it was a low bandwidth nightmare and you couldn't pay me

enough to go back to it. Yeah, the internet and like 56k, dial up speeds, ultra slow,

like waiting like AOL chat rooms. They'd be slow to load. Case in point. Pop ups. If you're

in your 30s or above now, I guess Kalimanai probably out the same age. Then you probably

still have nightmares about opening an innocent link only for your screen to be flooded with

dozens of unwanted insurance ads and via agropromos. So what's a pop-ups have to do with crime

you ask? Well, today I want to tell you the story about how a disturbing urban legend

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