Re:Back Orifice (1998)
by sarahjosh on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:11AM
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In AOL Instant Messenger when I was in middle school I bulk messaged a ton of accounts in some teen chat saying “Hi Sarah.” Most of them responded “I’m not Sarah” or similar but a few replied “who is this?” I said “It’s Josh.” Most of them said “I don’t know a Josh” but one of them said “Hi” like she knew a Josh. I then started talking to her and slowly got around to telling her that I had a crush on her. She actually seemed interested and she said she was going to come over to my house to talk about it. Don’t know how that ended but I hope it’s like your story.
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I had many 'randoms' added on MSN messenger. Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation. We used to discuss all and sundry back then.
I was always slightly more nervous messaging the girls (obvious from their elaborate emoticon-saturated screen names).
Curiously, one of my friends had a contact named '[email protected]' who was always online but never replied.
I sometimes wonder how many of them are doing now.
> Usually acquired through everyone inviting his complete contact list to one conversation.
Man, those were the days... Most of my contacts disappeared one by one (except for 2 which are my oldest friends now!), and it seems like that kind of atmosphere (just adding random people to chat) doesn't exist anywhere anymore, does it?
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