What were restrictions of the program, (like how gmail is slower than texting which makes it frustrating to use, or how tumblr only shows your first five hashtags in explore (i think))Īnswer: I don't remember many, honestly. We had chat rooms or private rooms that you could create and invite people to. Group IMs weren't a thing until around 2000 if I'm remembering right. So, it'd take two days or so to get a photo to someone.Īnswer: in a way, yes. Then hope you knew someone who had a scanner to digitize the pictures. God forbid if you took pictures that were risqué because you had to deal with the guy or girl developing the pictures. If I wanted to send a picture, I had to take a picture with a camera or Polaroid. Also remember that sending pictures the way we do now is a world away from then. A 1 megabyte picture in my mail could take 5-8 minutes to download.
The speed at which you could send a picture was based on your internet speed (remember that Broadband wasn't really a thing) and how much RAM was in your computer.įor instance, it was 99 cents a minute to connect to AOL on my old 56k baud modem. But we could send pictures back and forth. At least not in the manner in which they are today. Back in the 90s we had BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems) which sometimes had MUDs (Multi-user Dungeons) - basically text-based RPGs.Īnswer: GIFS weren't a thing, really. AOL, CompuServe, etc were called by their respective names. What was common slang used that was related to the program itself (like how instagram spawned "finsta" and snapchat spawned "snr" (streaks and recents) was there a character limit?Īnswer: See previous answer. But, we didn't feel the need to assign an acronym or abbreviation to everything. Stuff like rofl, lol, and lmao were things. What was common slang used in messages? like XD, ttyl, etc.Īnswer: there weren't really many slang terms that I remember. EDIT: was there a reason WHY abbreviations were so popular back then? like ROFL, TTFN, RUOK, ROFLMAO? i seriously can't find anything on this and it's a staple of the chapter, but i need an explanation for WHY people did this on these IMs adfhaklsdhfasdkjfhldk.what were restrictions of the program, (like how gmail is slower than texting which makes it frustrating to use, or how tumblr only shows your first five hashtags in explore (i think)).what was common slang used that was related to the program itself (like how instagram spawned "finsta" and snapchat spawned "snr" (streaks and recents).what was common slang used in messages? like XD, ttyl, etc.however, i was too young to really be on the computer during that time period, so i never used the program myself. my first chapter is on instant messengers such as AOL from 1998-2004 (before myspace). I'm doing a project for my sociolingustics course that involves the evolution of internet slang. Got a suggestion for a new flair? Send us a modmail!
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