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You see, back in the mid-90s, AOL was not the Internet. It was a completely closed off "online service" which you dialed into. The Internet was still in its early days, mostly a research network that was the realm of nerds and university students.

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Then one day, AOL opened the floodgates and let their teeming masses, basically "normies", onto the Internet. We were flooded with new users who had no idea what they were doing. It was insane. An AOL E-mail address usually meant you were going to be frustrated with that person.

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