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BettyWhite
04/10/17 9:59:53 PM
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Was you?






I recall being 10 and telling "girls" I almost got picked to be in this lame kids boy band group called Dreamstreet. They all believed me.

Soon I graduated to rooms in the Friends category. That's where I masqueraded as an 18 year old using an older picture of Josh Hartnett.

Then I got into the Arts and Entertainment rooms and started role playing Dragon Ball, Final Fantasy and Buffy.

Did that till I was like... 13.

Anyone else here partake in such activities? Despite it being immensely popular from 97-02, I can never find people who have.
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Balkov
04/10/17 10:01:48 PM
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Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.
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BettyWhite
04/10/17 10:02:35 PM
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Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?
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slipknirvana
04/10/17 10:03:33 PM
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I mainly used it to talk to people from school. I would go in chat rooms occasionally, remember being asked "ASL" pretty often.
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KillerKhan420
04/10/17 10:05:07 PM
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Lycos chat, icq, AOL chatrooms, then finally Yahoo chatrooms until they took it down. Not much into it now. Why did Yahoo take theirs down btw? Those dateline shows or something?
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Alkaloid
04/10/17 10:05:18 PM
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I went into one, and then my mom saw and kicked me off the computer XD

I never went into another
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BettyWhite
04/10/17 10:07:03 PM
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I remember cybering with people when I was 12.

http://www.oocities.org/hotyounghollywood/joshh05.jpg

That was the picture I sent people.
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BettyWhite
04/10/17 10:09:21 PM
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KillerKhan420 posted...
Lycos chat, icq, AOL chatrooms, then finally Yahoo chatrooms until they took it down. Not much into it now. Why did Yahoo take theirs down btw? Those dateline shows or something?


I think social media and texting killed em.
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BettyWhite
04/10/17 10:10:05 PM
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Alkaloid posted...
I went into one, and then my mom saw and kicked me off the computer XD

I never went into another


I turned my mom on to trolling.

Old school trolling.
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Nomadic View
04/10/17 10:11:03 PM
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I was very active in Yahoo Chat.
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KLouD_KoNNeCteD
04/10/17 10:16:57 PM
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Hey guys,

Way back in the mid 9O's I tried one of their chat rooms and got a lifetime ban from all AOL services. Somebody decided to impersonate me by changing an "l" (lowercase L) into an "I" (uppercase i). The guy went on a big trolling escapade trying to ruin my reputation. About 2 days later an AOL rep called and said they were cancelling our subscription and gave us a lifetime ban. How shitty is that?? All they looked at was the chat log I assume and didn't bother to check my IP or anything else.
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gguirao
04/13/17 4:19:20 AM
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I was too young.
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Kisai
04/13/17 4:29:30 AM
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BettyWhite posted...
Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?

Nobody actually said "a/s/l" back then on AOL. Never have I seen that used in the chat rooms. Not once. It wasn't until I ventured out onto the internet in general, outside of AOL, that I started seeing that. What I DO remember a lot of was "age/sex check" in the AOL chat rooms. Unfortunately, every time I mention this, nobody seems to have any memory of it.
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eggcorn
04/13/17 4:32:21 AM
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Kisai posted...
BettyWhite posted...
Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?

Nobody actually said "a/s/l" back then on AOL. Never have I seen that used in the chat rooms. Not once. It wasn't until I ventured out onto the internet in general, outside of AOL, that I started seeing that. What I DO remember a lot of was "age/sex check" in the AOL chat rooms. Unfortunately, every time I mention this, nobody seems to have any memory of it.


yeah dude I don't know what bootleg version of AOL you were on....
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trappedunderice
04/13/17 4:34:32 AM
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Used to go to Parachat a lot.
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BettyWhite
04/13/17 8:52:06 PM
#17:


eggcorn posted...
Kisai posted...
BettyWhite posted...
Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?

Nobody actually said "a/s/l" back then on AOL. Never have I seen that used in the chat rooms. Not once. It wasn't until I ventured out onto the internet in general, outside of AOL, that I started seeing that. What I DO remember a lot of was "age/sex check" in the AOL chat rooms. Unfortunately, every time I mention this, nobody seems to have any memory of it.


yeah dude I don't know what bootleg version of AOL you were on....


For real.

I've never used chat rooms outside of AOL and it's always been a/s or a/s/l.
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Kisai
04/14/17 12:51:32 AM
#18:


BettyWhite posted...
eggcorn posted...
Kisai posted...
BettyWhite posted...
Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?

Nobody actually said "a/s/l" back then on AOL. Never have I seen that used in the chat rooms. Not once. It wasn't until I ventured out onto the internet in general, outside of AOL, that I started seeing that. What I DO remember a lot of was "age/sex check" in the AOL chat rooms. Unfortunately, every time I mention this, nobody seems to have any memory of it.


yeah dude I don't know what bootleg version of AOL you were on....


For real.

I've never used chat rooms outside of AOL and it's always been a/s or a/s/l.

No. I've never seen "a/s/l". And it's maddening that nobody seems to remember "age/sex check". Is this a generational thing or something? Maybe it switched over sometime during the early-/mid-2000s.

On Yahoo! Chat, during the late-90s or so, I do remember a/s/l, kinda. But never on AOL's chat rooms. They had their own thing. I can't recall seeing it on mIRC though, although I wouldn't be surprised...
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jenningsnash313
04/14/17 12:59:39 AM
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I got into it toward the tale end, but I do remember using AOL for a couple of years. To be fair, we also had an aol email and dial up Internet from AOL. Kinda crazy how big they used to be, and how far they've fallen.
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Kanaya413
04/14/17 1:04:50 AM
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BettyWhite posted...
Alkaloid posted...
I went into one, and then my mom saw and kicked me off the computer XD

I never went into another


I turned my mom on to trolling.

Old school trolling.

What is old school trolling
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tripZ504
04/14/17 1:08:33 AM
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I remember the age/sex checks.

A/s/l was created on aol.

The days of mIRC....
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BettyWhite
04/14/17 4:22:50 PM
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Kisai posted...
BettyWhite posted...
eggcorn posted...
Kisai posted...
BettyWhite posted...
Balkov posted...
Neopets and AOL chatrooms were what I lived for back then.


A/S/L?

Nobody actually said "a/s/l" back then on AOL. Never have I seen that used in the chat rooms. Not once. It wasn't until I ventured out onto the internet in general, outside of AOL, that I started seeing that. What I DO remember a lot of was "age/sex check" in the AOL chat rooms. Unfortunately, every time I mention this, nobody seems to have any memory of it.


yeah dude I don't know what bootleg version of AOL you were on....


For real.

I've never used chat rooms outside of AOL and it's always been a/s or a/s/l.

No. I've never seen "a/s/l". And it's maddening that nobody seems to remember "age/sex check". Is this a generational thing or something? Maybe it switched over sometime during the early-/mid-2000s.

On Yahoo! Chat, during the late-90s or so, I do remember a/s/l, kinda. But never on AOL's chat rooms. They had their own thing. I can't recall seeing it on mIRC though, although I wouldn't be surprised...



How do you not remember A/S/L on AOL?

Again, I never used any other chat rooms and was always well aware of A/S/L.

Shit. People even used to describe their looks with that shit.

18/m/md/blonde/blue

I gots six pack abs. IM me ladies.
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EvalAngell
04/14/17 4:33:22 PM
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oh AOL...those were the days.

-had an online GF
-downloaded countless progs/hacks
-downloaded special files for my Dreamcast (wink wink)
-participated in weekly WWF roleplaying leagues

all while streaming Napster/Limewire/Kazaa in the background.
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BettyWhite
04/14/17 5:08:49 PM
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EvalAngell posted...
oh AOL...those were the days.

-had an online GF
-downloaded countless progs/hacks
-downloaded special files for my Dreamcast (wink wink)
-participated in weekly WWF roleplaying leagues

all while streaming Napster/Limewire/Kazaa in the background.


Dude. I was also in a couple WWF role playing leagues!
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