For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    381·
    6 days ago

    The same people who warned us about the dangers of the internet and not to believe everything, are now the ones readily falling for and spreading conspiracies and lies from social media.

    It’s tragic.

    • solarvector@lemmy.ml
      13·
      6 days ago

      I suspect now it was never about “don’t believe everything”, it’s just been “believe what I believe”. Which I suppose follows Nietzsche’s thought on the transition from religion to ideology.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 days ago

    Don’t believe everything you see. Actually I was taught that about TV, but for some reason the old folks forgot about it being applicable everywhere in life, not just on TV. They also forget about it on TV too.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    17·
    6 days ago

    Bottom-posting eMails and Usenet posts.

    Fuck you, Microsoft. Bottom-posting replies is the correct way to reply.

    • n0x0n@feddit.orgDeutsch
      3·
      6 days ago

      German here, I remember teaching people email etiquette and reminding them: “No TOFU” (Text Oben, Full quote Unten).

      Means sth like “text above, full quote below”

      • rekabis@lemmy.ca
        5·
        6 days ago

        Quote above, reply below was the eMail and Usenet standard from the 70s until Microsoft introduced Outlook, and more importantly, bundled Outlook Express with Windows in the mid to late 90s. Those were the first products that automatically top-posted by default, and especially on Usenet, you could almost always correctly identify an Outlook Express n00b by virtue of them top-posting.

  • Zement@feddit.nl
    8·
    6 days ago

    There always have been the nick picks. But now sometimes there is barely any connection between the post and the comments. Like two people with multiple strokes distributed between them having an angry teams call.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    the rule should be that you don’t use your name until you’re like 35 and understand how to use it properly

    • n0x0n@feddit.orgDeutsch
      2·
      6 days ago

      That, together with: I’m online, watch out for the ca… “No carrier”

      • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        8 days ago

        The modem made noises when connecting, but if someone picked up the phone, your internet would just stop working and they’d get their dial tone.

        Now dot matrix printers, those were real pterodactyl sounds.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          4·
          7 days ago

          Modems can still make noise. As recently as five years ago I still had to work with modems. A lot of them now have silent mode though

        • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Modems also make noises when connected. However, the noise of them connecting is more distinctive because they go through a handshake where you can hear distinct tones, but then negotiate a higher baud rate involving modulation of many different frequencies, at which point to the human ear it is indistinguishable from white noise (a sort of loud hissing). If you pick up the phone while the modem is connected at a higher baud rate (post the handshake), you’ll hear the hissing, and then eventually you picking up the phone will have caused too many errors for the connection to be sustained (due to introducing noise on the line), causing both ends to hang up. You’ll then hear the normal tone you hear when the called party has hung up the line.

          • toynbee@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Decades ago, I saw a (one of many) "you might be a geek / nerd if … " list (referencing “you might be a redneck”). As of this moment, the only one I remember is “you leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it sounds like the ocean - the perfect sound for surfing the web!”

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      8·
      7 days ago

      You come from a nice family. My family disconnected each other all the time

    • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      I used to get hella annoyed that my mom would be online all afternoon so I would pick up the phone and blow into it for a few seconds until I heard AOL man say “Goodbye.”