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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by amyjess on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:46AM (#12143828)
> what passed for flamewars back then seems pretty tame in comparison to today

Well, until the Meowers came about. That lead to what was quite possibly the biggest flamewar in Internet history, and it involved wholesale invasions of random newsgroups.

http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/_/meow_wars.html

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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by sevensor on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:26PM (#12144549)
Don't know how I missed that! 1996-2002 or so was my usenet era. I guess I didn't spend all that much time on alt.
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