Moon Cthulhu: If you wanted to try to hook up with someone from iscabbs, you had no idea what they looked like unless they had mailed you a photo. Usenet didn't even have a Star Wars group. I've seen some shit, man.

I’ve seen online communities you noobs wouldn’t believe. Attacking comments in the forums of Usenet. I’ve seen Geocities blinking under a million construction GIFS, and threaded flame wars spanning hundreds of LiveJournals. These memories will be lost…like tears in rain…

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

If you wanted to try to hook up with someone from iscabbs, you had no idea what they looked like unless they had mailed you a photo. Usenet didn't even have a Star Wars group. I've seen some shit, man.

ISCABBS! Oh man does that take me back (and yes, I did hook up with someone off there. Twice.)

I may have also done this, also twice. The 90s were a different time.

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