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Where did you learn everything you needed to know about online discourse?

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    Thank god I was able to learn on the early days of the internet

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      As many others have said IRC and usenet in the 90's

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        MMOs and forums.

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          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.

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            on the internet? it's an on-going process, there is no "everything"

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              Hmmm, I think my gateway drug to interacting with actual Internet strangers vs talking online with people I knew IRL, was probably via StarCraft over dial-up in 1998. RuneScape shortly after for developing actual relationships with people, then WoW owned my soul from its vanilla release through the cata expansion.

              Several WoW guilds had their own websites/forums, which eventually got me into forums for other topics, then Reddit, then here.

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                Over thirty years ago, on TALK.

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                  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.

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                  • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                    By being a part of online discourse as early as 1993 and watching it grow pretty much from inception.

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                    NO TOP POSTING

                    lol

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                      NO TOP POSTING

                      lol

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                      I still automatically think "YOUR .SIG IS TOO HUGE!" when reading modern work emails with rows upon rows of name, job title, company, contact info, disclaimers, embedded graphics, etc. at the bottom.

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                        on the internet? it's an on-going process, there is no "everything"

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                        Bingo. Whether or here, or formerly, reddit, I can adjust my style and words to get the upvotes, without compromising my beliefs. But holy shit, people are easy to manipulate.

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