• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    me at 11, hanging out in public chat rooms with Neonazis, pedos, and scientologists debating the Hubble deep field without knowing what any of those things are but just happy to be included.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      asl

      Any people were responding with it. The post has overplayed the actual cautiousness of those who were around back then.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOP
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      Public chatrooms were everywhere too. It was just the default, anywhere you went. AOL, yahoo games, random websites for no reason.

      Even as late as Starcraft 2 (so 2010-), you’d open the game and immediately be dropped into a giant public chatroom on the home screen with everyone else currently playing.