I am sorry to say this (not really, I was young) but I was a USENET troll back in middle school. I remember coming home from school and running up to my compute

I am sorry to say this (not really, I was young) but I was a USENET troll back in middle school. I remember coming home from school and running up to my computer, turning it on and connecting to the internet, downloading new messages to see what mayhem our (my friend and I shared a handle) latest provocations had caused. We eventually had an entire forum revolving around our posts, about 50% of messages were from or related to us. It became tiresome in time & we stopped. One anachronism that sounds almost unbelievable to younger internet users was this: another user threatened to (and did) take down my ISP and report me to my ISP "for abuse." It sounds so incredibly quaint in the 21st century, but time was you were expected to behave yourself online, potentially on penalty of your provider cutting you off. How times have changed.