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by h2odragon 2597 days ago
AOL before it was "A" even had term flagging for some of its chat channels, saying "script" in some of the Chicago Online text chats would get a moderator on you in second. "skirpt" didn't. That would have been 1990, 91? Don't think I saw "script kiddies" used until 94+ in the modern sense.
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I think AOL's definition may have been slightly different. I remember getting a "strike" on my parents' account (3 strikes and the whole account is banned) for "scripting" in a sense that we'd essentially call a "chat bot" today.

Of course I suppose it depends entirely on the specific chat moderator behind the report...