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.
I’m pretty sure that I still don’t know everything I need to know about online discourse.
I am a monkey with a typewriter
on the internet? it’s an on-going process, there is no “everything”
I started in a/s/l? chat rooms, but as social media has evolved, so has the discourse. I think I had to relearn every time I changed platforms.
CS 1.6
By being terminally online since the previous century.
tumblr
AOL LOLOL1
ASL?
18/f/cali, u? :-)
that’s my maiden name
I’m pretty sure American sign language looks different than that.
Chomsky
Runescape
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.
MMOs and forums.
It wasn’t just one place. It wasn’t even all online.
AOL 3.0
AOL 2.1 because I was on Mac at the time. Good ol’ #macwarez!
Oh the warez rooms were amazing! That’s how I finally got to play C&C: Red Alert lol
Haha damn! I remember seeing that on the daily mailers. I was busy getting the Adobe stuff like Photoshop and Illustrator, also QuarkXpress for page layout because fuck MS Word. Good times!
&totse and IRC mostly
