Dead2009
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Post by Dead2009 on Jun 20, 2024 9:48:53 GMT -5
Who here remembers the days of AOL chat rooms, AIM and other chats as such? If you're not aware, they were basically how Discord is now, except a lot more trolling and people trying to hook up lol. I still have friends that I talk to on occasion from those even to this day.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 20, 2024 9:51:21 GMT -5
I was in the WWE RPG chats on AOL all the time. I got kicked off so many times for violating TOS.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 20, 2024 9:53:49 GMT -5
Yahoo's user created chats were an insane hive of scum and villainy.
As a young teenager, there was plenty of out-in-the open, unmoderated easy to find unhealthy attention available there.
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MiLB Fan
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jun 20, 2024 9:58:07 GMT -5
I spent much of my early online life in the chat rooms on WWE’s AOL site (Keyword: SUPERSTARS).
*The forum hosts—the equivalent of our mods—all had HostWWF in their screen names. Every so often someone asked “OMG do you work for the WWF?!”
*Polling was illegal. For example, someone might type “If you like Stone Cold gimme a HELL YEAH!” Then the screen would scroll rapidly with numerous replies of HELL YEAH!
*When someone broke the rules, everyone knew it. A host would send out a message that looked like this:
“Attention [username], your account has been suspended for 15 minutes. STOP NOW and use this time to review America Online’s Terms of Service at Keyword: TOS.”
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 20, 2024 10:01:37 GMT -5
I spent much of my early online life in the chat rooms on WWE’s AOL site (Keyword: SUPERSTARS). *The forum hosts—the equivalent of our mods—all had HostWWF in their screen names. Every so often someone asked “OMG do you work for the WWF?!” *Polling was illegal. For example, someone might type “If you like Stone Cold gimme a HELL YEAH!” Then the screen would scroll rapidly with numerous replies of HELL YEAH! *When someone broke the rules, everyone knew it. A host would send out a message that looked like this: “Attention [username], your account has been suspended for 15 minutes. STOP NOW and use this time to review America Online’s Terms of Service at Keyword: TOS.” To this day, I still use one of the passwords they gave me after suspending my account.
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 20, 2024 10:45:54 GMT -5
I used them a lot when I was a teenager. When I couldn't afford to buy a wrestling PPV, it was good to get the PBP from annoying marks who would scream about everything.
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Dead2009
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Post by Dead2009 on Jun 20, 2024 10:50:19 GMT -5
I used them a lot when I was a teenager. When I couldn't afford to buy a wrestling PPV, it was good to get the PBP from annoying marks who would scream about everything. And now we just have Twitter for that lol
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 20, 2024 11:07:53 GMT -5
I used them a lot when I was a teenager. When I couldn't afford to buy a wrestling PPV, it was good to get the PBP from annoying marks who would scream about everything. And now we just have Twitter for that lol This site is about as close to social media that I use. Kind of tying back to that, I used AIM and YIM a lot when I was younger, and would get into long conversations with people, particularly women that I was flirting with. Anyways, I remember at one point some time had passed and I went back and found the logs, which were not only super cringy, but also sometimes 8 hours long. I decided at that point to not use it any more. Life is so much better without that stuff.
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schma
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Post by schma on Jun 20, 2024 11:09:43 GMT -5
I spent a lot of time on IRCQ. ICQ's IRC chat rooms. I learned a few years ago that IRC chatrooms still exist when a friend of mine made one for our group.
Edit: I say a few but now that I think of it we migrated to Discord about 6 or 7 years ago, so IRC chat room would have been about 10+ years ago. Still, much later than I expected and they are still totally used by some groups.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 20, 2024 11:30:19 GMT -5
I was in the WWE RPG chats on AOL all the time. I got kicked off so many times for violating TOS. Same. The one I remember was when I quoted the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Kids WB chat was another.
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Jun 20, 2024 11:33:11 GMT -5
Was always in the DefJam chatrooms.
Biggest memory of it was that I was in there when news broke that Aaliyah had died the absoloute whiplash of how instant that mood changed.
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Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Jun 20, 2024 11:34:41 GMT -5
a/s/l?
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jun 20, 2024 12:03:13 GMT -5
I miss the old RAW AIM chats. They were just ending I think we I started going here but loved the few times I was in one.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 20, 2024 13:42:05 GMT -5
Never bothered wiht AOL chat rooms.
But for years RSPW had 3 chats on IRC. Dal DOT Net iirc
The night Owen died was wild in there. So was Sept 11th 2001.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jun 20, 2024 13:48:02 GMT -5
Very fond memories of them. Around 2005 several of us from here used to have chats most nights. Luckily for me, one of the people who joined here used to participate in those chats and we got to chatting in private. In 2007 we got married (May 19th, although I promise you it was nothing to do with Kane, it was just the only suitable day in the period we wanted) and we’re still together to this day. If it hadn’t been for those chat rooms (and this forum), it would never have happened.
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 20, 2024 13:49:56 GMT -5
I used IRC until the day Discord more or less replaced it.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Jun 20, 2024 17:14:53 GMT -5
I spent a lot of my teen years in Yahoo chat rooms. There'd always be someone trying to lock down the voice chat and annoy everyone, so one of us would lock down the mic and play Metallica or something to drown them out until they left. Good times, haha.
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Jun 20, 2024 18:32:31 GMT -5
I was unhealthily addicted to Yahoo. Still keep in touch with a few people from there.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 20, 2024 18:58:27 GMT -5
That was the most common thing I'd see in the WWF.com chatroom.
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schma
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Post by schma on Jun 20, 2024 22:03:23 GMT -5
That was the most common thing I'd see in the WWF.com chatroom. The ice chat rooms all used this constantly. At least the teen focused ones did.
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