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by bmarquez 1666 days ago
Trolling existed on Usenet long before 4chan.

https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292
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kingcharles 1666 days ago
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.
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minitoar 1666 days ago
Right, even something awful predates 4chan.
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