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I fantasize about how fun it would be to have a bunch of usernames and troll a whole bunch of forums at once. I'm able to act like multiple personalities, though I don't have multiple personality disorder. It would be a blast pretending to be a whole bunch of different people arguing with each other.
Does this make me a psychopath?
I find life very boring. But I could entertain myself all day every day being an internet troll. I'd never get bored of it.
It could literally pay off on C-D, given the informative poster contests they have every month. May as well make it worth your while.
Not easier. Just brings quicker and more noticeable results.
Sort of like a person is going to be more aware of getting hit between the eyes with a ball bat, by a person he angered. Than he will be by the hand shake of some one he had just befriended.
I fantasize about how fun it would be to have a bunch of usernames and troll a whole bunch of forums at once. I'm able to act like multiple personalities, though I don't have multiple personality disorder. It would be a blast pretending to be a whole bunch of different people arguing with each other.
Does this make me a psychopath?
I find life very boring. But I could entertain myself all day every day being an internet troll. I'd never get bored of it.
Glass half empty is that you need a hobby. Glass half full is that you have a ready-made career as a "paid forum poster". Google it. I'm pretty sure this site uses them. Just look for five paragraph touchy-feely essays about relocating by 1 post junior members. So many of them are written by the same person it isn't even funny. They barely change anything, just spin out the same crap over and over. Maybe they aren't paid, though. You never know.
I have had numerous fun internet identities and I do not have multiple personality disorder. But the way to get banned quick is to express an opinion that is not politically correct. Just get a new screen name, you'll be fine.
1989????? Id never heard of the internet in 1989. Some people still had cords on their phones back then lol. I had always thought the early internet from the 60s, 70s and 80s was a creature of government and large educational institutions. I did not know the general public was "surfing the web" in 1989. The mid 90s is when the internet became a noticeable part of our society IMO.
You missed BIT.net and things like rec.pets.worms! LOL.
The internet was more fun back then. Most users were geeks, geek-wannabes, and the Seriously Weird .mil people. You actually had to know a little about computers to access the net. Bet you never heard of connecting via Telix. (:
I have had numerous fun internet identities and I do not have multiple personality disorder. But the way to get banned quick is to express an opinion that is not politically correct. Just get a new screen name, you'll be fine.
How many times have you been kicked out of The Tree of Liberty?
You missed BIT.net and things like rec.pets.worms! LOL.
The internet was more fun back then. Most users were geeks, geek-wannabes, and the Seriously Weird .mil people. You actually had to know a little about computers to access the net. Bet you never heard of connecting via Telix. (:
Oh, yeah . . . and naked ASCII art!
I'm aging myself . . . badly! LOL.
I had always thought congress made the internet more accessible to commercial and public use in the early 90s. I assumed that only government and academic types were communicating via the "internet" if that is what it was even called then. Just wondering what possibly could have been on there back then, but obviously something was going on judging by what some say. Ill consider myself educated. Back then I thought people who had a cordless phone were "high tech" My car still had an had 8 track in it and I thought those who could afford those new fangled CDs must be "rich". Yes I have had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this modern age. In 1989 I was still squarely in the old days.
Just wondering what possibly could have been on there back then
Porn! That was the biggest driver of the Internet before about 1994 or so when the GUI interface was standardized and the other commercial interests took over.
Don't let anyone tell you differently.
I got dragged to the Internet originally about 1987 because of Ham Radio and what is now called PSK31 but that's another story.
And trolls? The trolls of today pale in comparison to the trolls then and some of the flame wars. Oooo but there were some really nasty ones centering around Y2K but I really am digging up history.
Funny thing about trolls, they dont realize that oftentimes their style of their writing comes out no matter what name they re-name themselves with, including punctuation, spelling errors, typical ways of thinking expressed in their writing, their writing style, choice of words, etc. so a lot of times people can spot them.
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