I made this. Screen names, dial-up sound, no account. We fill the Lobby every Saturday 2pm US Central. Bring your worst 1997 screen name.

  • Seralth@piefed.seralth.com
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    2 days ago

    I… Don’t know how to feel about that. That makes sense but also feels awfully blasphemous to the origins of the internet.

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      2 days ago

      If it helps, part of that joke was that it should always be assumed your 16/f/ca was always 43/m, and it had a bit of an “I am Sparticus” feel to it.

      On the Internet, we’re all 16/f/ca.

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        21 hours ago

        Meanwhile, I was 11/f/nj, which became 14/f/nj.

        Yes, there were creeps.

        I did actually make friends with a real life 12-year-old from North Carolina, though, so that seemed pretty cool (we spoke on the phone a number of times–he was definitely a 12ish-year-old boy).