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I remember times before cat videos. Times when even porn was scarce on the Internet. Those were the times of technical discussions. Without crazy religious fanatics, without rabid political idiots, without degeneratively stupid kids.
Those were the times...
Even in those times these things you discuss were going on in the internet. There’s always been idiots on the internet even in the early days like Curtis Yarvin.
I miss pre-normie internet.
ASL?
I remember asking this in a Discord server (ugh) a couple of years ago. The response? "Can you please refrain from asking such personal questions in this server."
I miss the old days. Also fuck Discord.
18/f/cali
No, I can hear. Why?
Lol. Ok I’ll try: A/S/L?
14/f/cali u?
🚩 nice try FBI agent.
Can you write with words? Google suggests only something sex-related on this abbreviation/formula/whatever. No, I won't have sex with you.
Not knowing the ASL prompt casts some doubt on your claim to remember the internet back then. Knowing someone's age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn't the aim.
So that ASL is just a question about how old I am and where I live? Why not ask this straightforwardly especially after I claimed that I don't understand the question?
English isn't my first language. Not even a second one. You can't expect me to know all the slang/abbreviations/etc.
I'm 40. From Eastern Europe.
It wasn't.
ASL was extremely useful. We only had usernames, no profile pictures or anything else. ASL is what you asked if you were chatting on quakenet or another server. Most of the time you knew the regulars on your channel. Often mods would ask your ASL and if it turned out later you were lying then you'd get kicked or muted.
And that was fine. We never cared if you were a kid or something. You talk like a decent human, you share information like an educated human -- welcome. Regardless of boobs, age and whatever irrelevant things you might have.
I don’t discriminate. Humans, bots, whatever.
That seems pretty judgemental.
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