Online.
The NME (popular British music paper) had a website with a chat room/board that I was active on in the late 90s. I was about 17.
They also gave you free webmail with a @nme.com address, so you felt like a music journalist. Unfortunately, they shut it all down out of the blue in the 00s, with little warning, so I lost my primary email address. Would love to recover all those messages, but they are gone forever.
4chan taught me that, in a highly uncivilised world, the best thing to do is be kind and keep your dignity. It’ll either calm people’s spirits or infuriate others, and I enjoy both, lol. Also, words don’t have to hurt, especially those from online strangers!
Alt.flame. iykyk
On MMOs, trying not to sound like a kid, even though I was a kid, so I could join groups of cool people and guilds. Learned a lot of American lingo on Reddit.
in the 80s ‘online’ was often very local . you learned not to say things you wouldnt say to that persons face because there was every chance you would run into them at some local gathering of users.
Indeed and this very thing happened to me as I was a teenager talking shit to a user on our local MajorBBS system, which was a popular multi line BBS system that had chat, games, forums, fidonet, etc. and he showed up to the next meetup at the park (he did warn me he was going to be there, to kick my ass). Everything turned out fine but lesson learned.
Sounds quite similar to CB radio.
Usenet and IRC, back in the late 90s. Damn I’m getting old.
CS 1.6
Making as many mistakes, missteps, misunderstandings, misconceptions and misses as possible.
reddit
Started with online BBS’s in the 1980s where you could get kicked off for being a dick (and your phone number banned) but Larry Wall’s “rn” for Usenet used to say before every post:
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
AOL LOLOL1
ASL?
18/f/cali, u? :-)
that’s my maiden name
I’m pretty sure American sign language looks different than that.
Over thirty years ago, on TALK.
Napster chatrooms
Oh man, I am not the primary demographic of lemmy am I?
