I recently had a memory come back to being on aol sometime in 2001 and chatting with someone who claimed to be from Japan. This was in an anime chat room I used to visit.
Was the service available outside the USA?
I recently had a memory come back to being on aol sometime in 2001 and chatting with someone who claimed to be from Japan.
Back in my Myspace days I was naïve about the net an naïve in general. At the time I lived in Japan. The Myspace search function was utter crap and one day I ended up at a forum for a random town in Massachusetts. I hung out there because I liked the posts made by people who I assumed where in the 20s if not younger. It took me an embarrassingly long time to connect the dots and to understand why I was met with hostility.
The reason they didn’t like me was that they assumed my “Hey, guys - I’m in Japan,” comments were ridiculous lies and I was a narc and maybe even a local cop spying on the young people of the town.
That’s pretty funny. I thought they could have been an expat like you living in Japan, never got to ask them more questions though iirc.
I have fond memories of being on the net during the oughts. It was before social media and the mentality of people only willing to talk to people like them and it was before the rise of (toxic) conspiracy theories, nonsense, and highly aggressive anti-intellectualism - and the list goes on. I also miss blogs. The good ones were like somebody showing you their private notebook. Oh, well. That’s progress for you.
It was before social media and the mentality of people only willing to talk to people like them and it was before the rise of (toxic) conspiracy theories, nonsense, and highly aggressive anti-intellectualism
Back in the day if someone clowned on you for being a dummy it was a badge of shame. Now creeps online wear the “I’m a massive dumbass” hat with pride and love to tell you how ignorant they are.
I believe they had international numbers but they weren’t like a major presence outside of the US.
I believe they had international numbers but they weren’t like a major presence outside of the US.
Ah mystery solved then. I remember them being really into The White Stripes, so probably a western weeb.
