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> Web surfing has never been a group activity.

It often was, in my childhood. There was only one computer.

Mine as well. Trolling pedos on AOL who thought they were meeting up with teen girls was our past time. We got quite good at looking up locations, organizing places to meet, and more. We were Chris Hansen, in bored teen boys form.

Ah the days of A/S/L.

I was a teen meeting real girls from IRC.

Guess you missed out on the S part.

"Me? Having sex from the IRC days?! Oh, don't you worry, I had sex."

I was pointing out that besides parent being a 90s incel, there were other ways of life.

So sorry that triggered another incel /s

inb4 "AAAAAAAAAA I'm *TRIGGERED*"

Just thought your answer was funny, carry on without ego!

For the younger crowd, A/S/L? Was a typical introduction between people who were taking their chat to the next level. Like a handshake introduction in a room of crowded people where up to that point you were just throwing responses into the group discussion. This was in the days of IRC and Yahoo! Chat.

Age/Sex/Location?

And 13/f/cali was the traditional facetious reply.

Wasn't that the standard greeting on ICQ from randoms across the globe?

Uh-Oh! A/S/L?

It was the standard greeting in AIM chatrooms too. It was still a novelty to chat with someone unknown from somewhere else in the world, so it was neat to know where they were.

sadly only a portion of its early existence

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