08-09-2024, 02:59 AM
(08-09-2024, 12:08 AM)l0st Wrote: Hahaha I assure you, trolls were around lloooonngg before the Internet. I was a SysOp on 6 different BBSes, but primarily moderated only the one of them. Had to give several the boot over that stuff. They were around on Compuserve message boards circa late 80's, too.
Well, I kind of consider that the internet also, but I agree, yes they were. Regardless of it it was before the www. (which I guess technically defines the 'web'), it was still an electronic internet like medium.
I had a (5) digit Compuserve account number!! 16000,xxxx That's how old I am. I was out there on all those BBS's you refer to. Most people on Compuserve only had (6) digit account numbers like 225000,xxxx. I think I signed up for Compuserve in like 1987, but was online with BBS's before that. Heck, I can even remember reading the book...'The "Internet" for Dummies (what is the "Internet" really?)'
