Thu 31 Jul 2008
What major or minor errors or faux pas did you make in your early days of using the Internet? Any embarrassing moments or behaviors?
I first got online in 1998. At one time I started noticing that a lot of search results I got were from some site called “wikipedia.” Being the naive little teenager I was, I assumed it was some kind of Wiccan encyclopedia.
Though unfamiliar with the term, I once created a sockpuppet at a major online forum (not Metafilter). I was called out in approximately 0.0001 milliseconds.
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I once wrote a usenet post to rec.pets.cats written from my cat’s point of view.
I used to be an AOL script kiddie.
/punt user18892732
OK, I am going to admit this…
When I first got online it was in Poland, maybe 1996 or 97. I had very little contact with English leading up to that time, and the sudden access to “the whole world” got my head a little funny. There was a period of a few months that I would sit and drink beer looking for strange chatrooms. I found a hip-hop place and started asking if white people were allowed there, and telling them I wasn’t wearing any pants, and blah di blah… boring, content-free attention whore, pure noise.
When ICQ came out, I made random connections and got very weird and trollish and obnoxious, making “new Internet friends”… competing to see how long I could keep someone engaged with me, spinning strange crap at them… fuck me, what was I thinking?
Why does the me of five or ten years ago always seem like such an asshole? Please, less memory…
Does getting caught by your mom at age 16 having a cybersex relationship with some “British” guy who you’ve told you’re “a dominatrix” because you wound up using her email after like, forgetting your own password or some stupid thing count?