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When AOL first created its portal to Usenet newsgroups in the 1990s, there was a similar effect.
by masonic 8y ago
When AOL first created its portal to Usenet newsgroups in the 1990s, there was a similar effect.
- stickfigure 8y agoVery true. Funny anecdote: I used to be an avid reader of alt.best-of-internet. When AOL put newsgroups online, alt.best-of-internet was at the top of the alphabetical list and suddenly got a deluge of nonsense. Please to AOL went unheard. Someone got the brilliant idea to keep a thread bumped to the top whose title was: OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM AOL: WE WORSHIP SATAN I don't know if this was cause/effect, but shortly afterwards alt.best-of-internet was hidden or moved to a less conspicuous location in the UI and the deluge stopped.