age/sex/location - it was a means of greeting to establish if it was someone you wanted to chat with, not great in hindsight, but a lot of us were kids :P
I thought I was unique for being on the dw when I was 13. I assumed that I was the youngest in all the chatrooms. But more and more I learn I probably wasn’t even in the lowest quartile age-wise lol
I used to frequent IRC servers as a child (~age 10-13) and won a contest once that earned me voice (+) status for a week after sniffing out the most pedophiles in a dedicated kids channel. Was easy enough to do by running a /whois (or whatever the command was) on participants to see if they were also in channels like #dadsforboys and reporting them to channel operators (who were probably jerking off to us also).
The fact that this was all perfectly normal to me by that point, and that I was so wholly unfazed by these types that I would sometimes fuck with them, is kind of alarming. I guess I'll just carry that awareness going forward with my own children and keep them off of IRC/Roblox/whatever else might expose them to the vast world of internet cum creeps.
It's worth mentioning that I had a number of IRC girlfriends back then as well, and I suspect at least two of them were adult men pretending to be adolescents. I remember one "girl" in particular was from San Antonio and insisted her 12-year-old ex-boyfriend from Canada (who her dad called "Moose") had already flown down to stay with them once. I guess I was next (not that my mom would have allowed that).
However, I didn't realize at the time that she/he was Hispanic, and eventually sent them the comedic "Mexican Americans" song by Cheech Marin in glorious .wav format, to which the recipient became deeply offended and stopped speaking to me entirely.
So, a lot of people think the best way to prevent this is to destroy digital privacy. However, hear me out, much more good could be obtained by simply teaching kids to use...
In the AOL days of the internet my dad thought TV meant a chat room for television and not transvestites. It was funny till I explained it to him, then it was REALLY funny.
31 Comments
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 64 pts · 80d
Me at 11: selling d scim 60k, abby whip 5m, flax 100gp/ea
marighost@piefed.social · 36 pts · 80d
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 80d
Saammmmeee
LongLive@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 80d
Could you please decipher?
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 42 pts · 80d
They were playing Runescape and trying to trade a dragon scimitar, an abyssal whip, and a lot of flax
flandish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 80d
eq1?
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 60 pts · 80d
God this is too on the fucking nose I had almost this exact experience at 11
flandish@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 80d
just explained what “a/s/l” was the other day.
TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk · 28 pts · 80d
Man, I just picked random shit every time.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 79d
18, Female, Florida
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 79d
What does it mean?
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 79d
age/sex/location - it was a means of greeting to establish if it was someone you wanted to chat with, not great in hindsight, but a lot of us were kids :P
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 5 pts · 79d
American Sign Language :) /s
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 79d
kind of interesting how/why it died out.
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
What was the L?
flandish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
location
farting_gorilla@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 79d
"Location " iirc
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 79d
Language
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 43 pts · 80d
replace msn with discord and its the way some children are living rn
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 80d
Most people nowadays unfortunately. And it ain't limited with discord - especially while we are in the AI era.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 79d
Replace either with AOL chatroom and you have the elder millennials who are now saying the stupid shit in discord.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 80d
I thought I was unique for being on the dw when I was 13. I assumed that I was the youngest in all the chatrooms. But more and more I learn I probably wasn’t even in the lowest quartile age-wise lol
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 79d
I used to frequent IRC servers as a child (~age 10-13) and won a contest once that earned me voice (+) status for a week after sniffing out the most pedophiles in a dedicated kids channel. Was easy enough to do by running a /whois (or whatever the command was) on participants to see if they were also in channels like #dadsforboys and reporting them to channel operators (who were probably jerking off to us also).
The fact that this was all perfectly normal to me by that point, and that I was so wholly unfazed by these types that I would sometimes fuck with them, is kind of alarming. I guess I'll just carry that awareness going forward with my own children and keep them off of IRC/Roblox/whatever else might expose them to the vast world of internet cum creeps.
It's worth mentioning that I had a number of IRC girlfriends back then as well, and I suspect at least two of them were adult men pretending to be adolescents. I remember one "girl" in particular was from San Antonio and insisted her 12-year-old ex-boyfriend from Canada (who her dad called "Moose") had already flown down to stay with them once. I guess I was next (not that my mom would have allowed that). However, I didn't realize at the time that she/he was Hispanic, and eventually sent them the comedic "Mexican Americans" song by Cheech Marin in glorious .wav format, to which the recipient became deeply offended and stopped speaking to me entirely.
Might have just saved my life.
https://youtu.be/LLqqZmNFa_A
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 79d
That must have felt cool as hell though. Winning the contest.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 80d
Damn. Thought I was the only one.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 79d
So, a lot of people think the best way to prevent this is to destroy digital privacy. However, hear me out, much more good could be obtained by simply teaching kids to use...
jonesey71@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 79d
In the AOL days of the internet my dad thought TV meant a chat room for television and not transvestites. It was funny till I explained it to him, then it was REALLY funny.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 80d
the right answer is "yes, please"
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 80d
Whaddaya chicken?!?
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 79d
the things that never change are only the bad ones
Berlinblades@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 79d
Strongly "everybody knows shits fucked Up"guy from Berlin coded...
Ifyou know,you know!