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Earliest usage of the term I can of the term on newsgroups is 1988.

I was certainly using it in the early 90s.

Weird. I've been online since the mid 90's, mostly on IRC and newsgroups, and have never seen it. TIL.

AFAIK, yeah.

IIRC it's been at least a decade.

TBH I've used it for over a decade.

I've seen this used on IRC for approximately 7 years.