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Is Yaaaay (Spookybot) Gary?
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 25 Oct 2020, 20:35 ---Nobody called it 'eternal september' at the time. We called it 'The September That Never Ended.'
*snip*
But he just went somewhere else and did it again. And then learned to spoof addresses so his next mail server wouldn't get burned down by the responses. And then people started copying him....
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And then the bats started coming to eat the bugs...and then the snakes started coming to eat the bats...and then the competing teams of researchers came to do their own surveys...and then the nature documentary film crew came to record everything...and then the park police came to break up all the fighting...and then a big millipede crawled up my pant leg...
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 18 Oct 2020, 17:47 ---I was first online barely before the Eternal September started, and I had no idea what the fuck I was doing at the time. I didn't get serious about it until '96 or so, and even then I was largely a lurker. I don't miss dialup, or any of the crap of the browser wars at all, and in fact, I'm rather glad. But one thing that still registers to me, and I'm fully willing to admit how much privilege I have/had in the process, but it's too easy these days. Even the trolls back in the '90s were more interesting, and getting online (at least with Windoze) back then was more like having to know how to drive a manual before even being allowed on the road.
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Yeah, even the fascists in the 90's were relatively civil compared to the current ones.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 21 Dec 2019, 07:03 ---
On the other hand, Gary's message was a completely different tone than Yay Newfriend has often taken.
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Tbf, current Yay comes across as different than when they were first introduced. I don't think it's out of the question for an AI to go through personality changes.
JimC:
As I recall hearing the first spammy type message appeared within weeks of email being invented. People are people. My Internet usage dates back to the 90s, maybe early 90s, I forget, but certainly before domain registries, which to my mind were the start of the rot.
The trouble is the net technologies were founded on the basis of reasonable techies co-operating, which is why we now have a flood of criminality which is mostly dealt with by ostriching, victim blaming and complacency.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Mar 2021, 22:46 ---As I recall hearing the first spammy type message appeared within weeks of email being invented. People are people. My Internet usage dates back to the 90s, maybe early 90s, I forget, but certainly before domain registries, which to my mind were the start of the rot.
The trouble is the net technologies were founded on the basis of reasonable techies co-operating, which is why we now have a flood of criminality which is mostly dealt with by ostriching, victim blaming and complacency.
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Same here. And I have friends who remember the Eternal September. Never got into Usenet or BBSes myself, though. Anyway, I think it's fairly obvious that Yay is Desire of the Endless, we established that a while ago.
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