Then... Then I bought a laptop. And it had a built-in modem. So the only thing I had to do is to buy a scratch card for prepaid Internet service. The connection was slow, the traffic was expensive. Also, there were constant attacks from the network. And then, one weekend, I stumbled upon a link to a news report about calling a rescue team to help some teenage girls who were supposed to be stuck in mud in a tidal area (in fact they weren't stuck, though they were muddy after accidental sinking). I knew very little about mudflats, I was quite surprised by many things. A passer-by sees someone in mud and calls a rescue team? I thought it was totally impossible in my part of the world. (As I learned from the Internet during the following months I was wrong - it was possible and it had happened several times). A rescue team responds such call? I thought it was totally impossible in my part of the world. (Again, as I learned from the Internet I was wrong - it was possible, though calling firefighters for such thing seemed strange. Back then firefighters were one service and "universal" rescuers were another one, whose phone nobody knew.) But the most important was - It was supposed that some girls CAN GET STUCK IN MUD in principle, and such case didn't seem absolutely extraordinary. That was a discovery! Well, just a first, and not the most important discovery.
The most important discovery was made in several minutes after the first one. With trembling hands I typed "girl stuck in mud" in Google (I would never imagine that I should use the word "quicksand" instead). Aaaannnnd.... One of the first results was "... girls sinking and getting stuck in deep deep mud." Messyfun. The phrase delivered it all to me. People buy videos of girls who are getting stuck in deep deep mud. Welcome to the new world!
By the way, the Messyfun site itself was either not available in principle or not available for my part of the world for quite a long time. I managed to get to it much later. For a long time I was lurking without registration. It took me pretty long time to register an email at Yahoo (I discovered that many fetish sites refused to accept mail.ru email as legal) and to register at some sites, including DeepSinking. Then I continued lurking with registration (but already able to download stuff, like pictures and videos). Then I dared to write my first posts. And the same 2005 year I got broadband connection. You know what for
