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We did not all get along. I remember some incredible flamewars on echomail, certainly, and also on usenet.
by rootusrootus 3mo ago
We did not all get along. I remember some incredible flamewars on echomail, certainly, and also on usenet.
- JKCalhoun 3mo agoAnd yet those look so quaint (in scope, certainly) nowadays.
- toyg 3mo agoyeah, the worst that could happen was some IRC shenanigans and getting a bunch of unexpected pizza deliveries. SWATing and doxxing were very rare, and nobody would try to get you fired or ostracized for saying the wrong thing.
- chasd00 3mo agoidk, I remember significant predatory behavior on IRC and pretty bad stuff floating around in alt binaries on usenet.