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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by kragen on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:22PM (#27210766)
No, if someone did that on IRC in the 90s we would immediately peg them as a loser from AOL. There was a lot of sex (and sexual harassment) on IRC, but pseudonymity was the default.
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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by cout on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:42PM (#27211091)
I encountered the "a/s/l" question on numerous Undernet channels when I started using irc.

We would joke about it in programming channels, but people really did use it in non-programming channels.

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