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Displayed anger means the demosocialists who own the hate and fear mongering franchise, have been overwhelmingly successful in their efforts, thanks entirely to the media propaganda machine which has been indispensable in fomenting violence via lies and twisted words to further divide the country.
The rigged election stole the only legal way citizens can oppose or support candidates and policies.
The demosocialist and media try as they might to silence the voice of the people and the expected result is frustration and anger.
even an angry VP harris is striking back at the media propaganda.
there is Chinese-style censorship everywhere with the laws , with the vaccines, with talking about mandates or masks. the left picks and chooses which scientists to listen to and throws out any scientist that questions the reality of the situation. these health advisors were not elected and are a threat to our democratic republic where they can make dictatorial decisions without a vote of any kind.
they are implementing vaccine passports where I live . I won't be able to live unless I move. these people should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.
Commodore 64 went online in 1989 and there were 1,500 users world wide online. We lived in Paradise Butte County and went to the server's house for the region for some issue I can't remember that got fixed and he had a bunch of Amiga's with wires running to phone lines. God I hate to think of his phone bill!!
The worst behavior I see here is when someone, usually a new poster, asks some genuine question about a difficulty they are facing. That requires some disclosure of the situation which puts some part of your personal life out there.
You would think people would be sympathetic to the individual asking for help, and most are. But some, and it's not just a few, but maybe 30-40% of posters basically just start roasting the person. Criticizing their decisions, blaming them for the problem the OP is asking about.
That's just awful behavior.
Reason why I deactivated all my accounts. The reason for that is you need karma to be respected and to get karma you need to be respected. It's like you need a house or apartment to get a job and you need a job to get the first two hence the 'revolving' door the right wing people don't understand as they believe to just 'shoot em all'.
I was "online" in the 80s, yes. The modern Internet? no as I didn't get dialup until ~1990(still use the email address that came with this). cablemodem in 2000 not that this is revelent here.
I used/called BBSs since the early 80s(use google or wiki before you ask something embarrassing about this in fact I'll preemptively answer your question as this is a fairly accurate description of such). The BBS days at 300 baud was rough as the silly modem sometimes even had trouble transmitting as fast as I could type at times then. This was one of those manual telephone modems where you had to physically dial a phone number and when you heard the modem at the other end answer you had to flip a switch on your modem so they would talk and make a connection(There is a fairly accurate presentation of this process in the movie War Games). Fun times. Technology has come a long way.
BBSs had online forums and QuantumLink for 8bit Commodore appeared in 1985, they became what was AOL(which I was also on and developed content for using their rainman tool) in the 90s.
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Originally Posted by VulcanRabbi
Commodore 64 went online in 1989 and there were 1,500 users world wide online.
I was online with my Commodore 64 many years before 1989, certainly by 1985 since I was on Qlink for several years-there was certainly more than 1500 online there. I saw more than that online in RabbitJacks Casino(an extension to People Connection section they had) alone on there on Casino nights.
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Outrage is addictive and the internet let's people hide behind their screens while participating so they can be much more vile than they would IRL. People wake up needing their "fix" these days and experience actual withdrawal symptoms if they can't do it.
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This was one of those manual telephone modems where you had to physically dial a phone number and when you heard the modem at the other end answer you had to flip a switch on your modem so they would talk and make a connection(There is a fairly accurate presentation of this process in the movie War Games). Fun times. Technology has come a long way. 
