...when groups were net.music, net.comics, http://net.news ...some of my friends and I pulled a heinous, vile, despicable prank.
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We wrote an article titled "BYRNE AND BYRNE BURN BYRNE, THEN BURN" about David Byrne and Jane Byrne setting fire to John Byrne.
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We wrote it so it would be trivially relevant to every newsgroup we could think of, and crossposted it to them all.
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Boy did we get in trouble for that! I think they called the FBI. That's right, Arthur. We were practically rapists and child molesters. Yep.
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@St_Rev Check Arthur's age. He's not old enough to remember back in the day. Who knows what he's talking about? It's not Usenet, for sure. -
@ContentOfMedia Probably SomethingAwful, which actually did contain some real cesspits. But that was self-selection. -
@St_Rev SomethingAwful... there's some nominative determinism for you!
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@St_Rev hm. it would seem that according to Arthur Chu "the internet" was born in September 1993. - End of conversation
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@St_Rev There was net.general. Who needed anything else? -
@berthyman I had a friend who at one point read ALL OF USENET every day, bc he had a boring computer lab job.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.