Old School Chat Rooms

[Rolent Tex]

Excite chat was my jam and later Yahoo.

[Rave]

Oh, AOL chat rooms and message boards. Utter cesspools with draconian moderation that did absolutely nothing to curtail it. Couldn't even say ass back then.

Met my oldest friend in one of the WWE chat rooms, I was into efedding back then and he was recruiting for one. 25 years later, we still put up with each other's antics and have pulled several more people into our collective insanity.

[Perd]

Back then, my only exposure to AOL, was if I went to my neighbor's house. Our only goal was to get kicked out of any room we entered. My family's first internet access came through WebTV. And I’d pretty much do the same thing on those chat rooms. By the time I got my first PC, chat rooms were pretty much dead.

[Paul]

What I remember most about AOL Chat Rooms (other than how much fun the WWF Chat Rooms were) is there'd often be someone in them with the AOHell program installed causing chaos in the chat rooms. It was an interesting time.

[Zombie Mod]

Jun 20, 2024 18:58:27 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

Jun 20, 2024 11:34:41 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

a/s/l?

That was the most common thing I'd see in the WWF.com chatroom.

I used to clear out those chatrooms by saying "if you press ALT and F4 at the same time you get a hidden drop down menu for secret female wrestler pics".

it was surprising how often that would work and how many people didn't know what that button combo does (and still don't.)

[ERON]

When I was in college, I spent countless hours in the computer lab chatting on Yahoo. That and the arcade at the student rec center had a lot to do with why it took me six and a half years to graduate instead of four. I actually hooked up with a couple of girls I met the chat rooms, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Many hours were spent at work in IRC on in #RSPWTALK and #RSPWPoop.

They gave us internet and work and we got told as long as we weren't doiing "Anything illegal" we could use it for non work stuff during down time.

Back then my job was 10 hour shifts with that being 30 minutes of work then 3 to 4 hours of downtime.

For a while I was getting paid good to sit in my office post on RSPW and read the newest Death Valley Driver Video Review issue when it came out.

I would print out each DVDVR and read it that way.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

Jun 20, 2024 9:58:07 GMT -5 MiLB Fan said:

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.”

I was one of those hosts. We got free AOL. I got reprimanded initially for letting mild vulgarity go without hitting people with a TOS. I was just there more to stop the scrollers, people with hack bots and the people who bullied.

[Paul]

Yahoo's themed chat rooms were fun and I was bummed when they shut those down.