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I wonder if this was just population effects. The group of people communicating over the internet in 1993 is not the same as the group of people doing so today.

• johnwalkr 6y ago
  Eternal September was in 1993.
• coolgeek 6y ago
  Also depends on where you look. As far as I recall, and understand, trolling and flame wars began in Usenet newsgroups edit: at least the terms, more so than the behaviors they describe