Is netiquette a 90's thing?

Big.Wayne · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:15

Hellooo Denizens of GD!

Does anyone remember this thing called Netiquette

I remember back in the good old days of dial-up 14.4k modems these was a certain set of rules on how to behave when online and posting in bulletin boards and early forums but this seems to have gone to hell!

Do any of you use Netiquette anymore or? :cool:

Schizo · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:19

dial-up 14.4k modems

i dont remember that far back im afraid.

56k was my 1st line.

gillywibble · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:20

Good day to you sir. Fare thee well?

iamdjdz · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:23

I CNT REMEMBER NETIQUETTE MATE..

Dewotter · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:24

I hate irriatating puns on words...

pingwing · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:25

I had one of them modems. I was about 5 at the time though and definitely not allowed on the net.

And no netiquette has gone the way of the dodo....

Big.Wayne · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:26

gillywibble said:
Good day to you sir. Fare thee well?

Hehe nice!

iamdjdz said:
I CNT REMEMBER NETIQUETTE MATE..

Not bad!

Viper² · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:27

In before the grammar Nazis..

_dogma_ · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:28

We got taught about it in Higher Computing/ Information Systems so that would've been in 2005ish. I don't think people have ever really paid attention to it though!

Dinomania · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:28

Oh there were all kinds of rules over posting in threads in newsgroups. Most of it made sense as it was basically a ton of email-replies one after the other in a public space.

Can't remember any specifics though!

FreeStream · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:35

56k here

Although I have a 14.4 around here somewhere, but I was less than 5 when that was about so not entirely sure I could remember all that

Van Hellseek · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:50

netiquette???

STFU NOOB.

Locke · 13 Jul 2009 at 23:54

LOL WHAT

Steve2000 · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:06

I remember them 14.4 modems, think I still have one in the loft.

Not sure about this net etiquette though?

whitecrook · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:07

RFC 1855

http://www.stanton.dtcc.edu/stanton/cs/rfc1855.html

Rroff · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:11

Ah yeah... bunch of crap dreamed up by anoraks/OCD to make life a pain for people with better things to do than obsess over details.

Tho I admit some of it made sense for newgroups/bbs to prevent them degenerating into an unreadable mess.

RandomTom · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:12

Never send chain letters via electronic mail. Chain letters are forbidden on the Internet. Your network privileges will be revoked. Notify your local system administrator if your ever receive one.

Use mixed case. UPPER CASE LOOKS AS IF YOU'RE SHOUTING.

Wait overnight to send emotional responses to messages. If you have really strong feelings about a subject, indicate it via FLAME ON/OFF enclosures. For example:
FLAME ON:
This type of argument is not worth the bandwidth it takes to send it. It's illogical and poorly reasoned. The rest of the world agrees with me.
FLAME OFF

Haha, that's classic!

whitecrook · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:13

Rroff said:
Tho I admit some of it made sense for newgroups/bbs to prevent them degenerating into an unreadable mess.

Good job the web hasn't degenerated into an unreadable mess.. Oh wait...

~J~ · 14 Jul 2009 at 00:22

V4NT0M · 14 Jul 2009 at 01:19

I think they were less "rules" and more like "stupidity".