Is netiquette a 90's thing?

I'm finding the lack of netiquette in the technical forums is diminishing it as a technical resource i.e a lot of threads tend to get hijacked and taken off topic! :p

That's not so bad if you follow the thread as it rolls out but for anyone with a genuine technical need it's a bit of a nightmare trawling through a thread looking for some nuggets of info amid the rants, flames and general thread drift! :D

Can you imagine if there was no rules/guidance to driving, once you got in your car you could do as you saw fit, pretty scary! :cool:
 
I rememeber that. What was it ?

No really I rememeber the word and always thought of it as a word your nan might use. I remember long before msn and most of the yahoo, aim etc chat apps we have now. There was Microsoft chat client which I think went up to version 5 or something before the first 'messenger' came out (shipped with windows 98 ? & XP). It was pretty garish but the emoticons and all that stuff were already there in a form.

Netiquette was established as a guide and nothing more. I do believe MS coined the word but I could be wrong.
 
Netiquette to me was just simply an extension of good manners & behaviour. Treat and respond to any posts as you would do as if you were interacting in real life. Sadly, very seldom seen around these parts now.
 
Fido McNasty said:
I rememeber that. What was it ?

No really I rememeber the word and always thought of it as a word your nan might use. I remember long before msn and most of the yahoo, aim etc chat apps we have now. There was Microsoft chat client which I think went up to version 5 or something before the first 'messenger' came out (shipped with windows 98 ? & XP). It was pretty garish but the emoticons and all that stuff were already there in a form.

Netiquette was established as a guide and nothing more. I do believe MS coined the word but I could be wrong.
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Thats why its obsolete now?


:D
 
The OcUK forum uses some original netiquette for it's signature rule i.e four lines of text :)

If you have ever used a forum which doesn't have signature rules then you know how OTT some people can go! :D

Not many people like SPAM either so clearly there is some good things about Ye Old Netiquette! :cool:
 
Sig rules are a very good idea... I dunno why some people just can't see that 4x 640x800 images in their sig isn't a good thing...
 
_dogma_ said:
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!
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I remember saying LOL WTF STFU NOOB ROFL to my teacher. She had no idea what i was talking about :(
 
semi-pro waster said:
I don't aim for netiquette per se but I will usually try to be polite in what I'm posting and not take the thread off topic too wildly when I can avoid it if that counts?
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Similarly I always try to keep in mind when I'm writing something on the internet, "would I say this out loud if there were people standing in front of me?" a lot don't though as evidenced by John Gabriel's Greater Internet ******* Theory :)
 
One lame thing is that "l33t speak" is probably used in a contrived, ironic fashion far more than in earnest things days.

Cut it out, internet!
 
When I worked in eLearning we had a lot of mature students you had never heard of message boards or anything like that so we had to teach them how to use it. Part of this was netiquette lessons.

I think it still exsists to an extent, people generally dont type in in caps and it is still seen as shouting.

like wush says l33t is very annoying when it's done seriously. The more numbers someone uses instead of letters, the younger (and/or dumber) they are.
 
I had a 1200bps modem with my Amiga. I used to dial-up BBSs with it. It used to take about 30 seconds to draw each page of ASCII text. I think an 14.4kbps modem was over £100 then.
 
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