[kitsunesoba]

The modern definition of troll seems to be more closely related to one of the personalities that got its start at a particular notorious imageboard, who constantly posts flamebait and thrives off of pushing the limits of how much they can upset others. I haven’t seen the original more innocuous definition used in a long time.

[Eelongate]

Posting flamebait to troll precedes 4chan by many years. 4chan really isn't that old in the grand scheme of internet things, and isn't truly the originator of very much. Virtually any form of trolling you might find on 4chan was pioneered somewhere else many years before 4chan existed.

[sneedenheimer]

Oh, I consider flamebaiting trolling. But flamebaiting isn't cyberbullying or harassment or whatever these people think trolling means.

[bmarquez]

Trolling existed on Usenet long before 4chan.

https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292

[kingcharles]

Ugh. I was an antisocial jerk trolling IRC in the early 90s. I would use shell accounts to ping flood servers and cause netsplits just so I could take control of a channel and change the topic to something dumb.

[minitoar]

Right, even something awful predates 4chan.