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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by atq2119 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:17AM (#24027215)
My university login was a pseudonym. Sure, you could have tried to get my real name from the admins, but it would have taken at least some effort.

Moreover, online forums (remember phpBB?) were overwhelmingly pseudonymous on practice.

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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by rwmj on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:32AM (#24027740)
Pretty sure you could have done:

    finger [email protected]
and found out who I was all the way through to the mid 90s.
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