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by z0r on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:34PM
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This might just be a way of aging ourselves. I do feel that Facebook blatantly flipped the norm that you used a pseudonym and kept personal information private when communicating (much less publishing) online - that's the norm I grew up with in the 90s and even the early 00s.
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by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:21PM
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Back on usenet in the 80s and 90s, your ID was essentially your email address (but likely using bang path notation). There no pseudonyms, and everyone was a real person with identifiable features and a real world location.
I was a heavy usenet user in the 1996-2000 era and this wasn't true for me or most of the groups i hung out on (and even less so for IRC chans).
Earlier (pre-eternal september) usenet was definitely different though and I think much more like you say - sadly that was before I was old enough to get on-line, so I never saw it.
Yeah, once AOL came aboard and the green card lawyers showed the future of spam, things took a turn.
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by mikrotikker on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:55AM
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And it was only so they could target you with ads or so your friends could find and add you so they could target them with ads