What was your first main method of communication online?

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wackyteen
04/18/2024
08:13 AM
#1
I didn't really use the internet to talk to people until I started coming to GameFAQs in 2007.

I played Runescape and would talk to people there if I needed/wanted something, but it wasn't really a main method of communication.

I had an email before 2007 but I didn't really use it for anything.

So really, this website was my first main method of online communication.
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Breaker
04/18/2024
08:21 AM
#2
Dreamcast chat rooms.
So says Mr. Stewart.
Karovorak
04/18/2024
08:22 AM
#3
Message boards!

Small young me, shitposting as a 13 year old, on a BF1942 community board.

Ultimate cringe, thank god that thing died decades ago, as well as any link to my even more cringy username at that time.
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Psych_RN
04/18/2024
08:22 AM
#4
AOL chat rooms
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ai123
04/18/2024
08:23 AM
#5
I used to talk to a lot of people via AIM.

Don't talk to anyone I only know online anymore, except via public channels like this post. Don't even do PMs.

People I know personally, I'll talk to on WhatsApp.
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wackyteen
04/18/2024
08:24 AM
#6
Karovorak posted...


Ultimate cringe, thank god that thing died decades ago, as well as any link to my even more cringy username at that time.

This username is an evolution of my first online username, so at least you moved on lol
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Solid_Sonic
04/18/2024
08:28 AM
#7
Chat rooms, I think. First community I ever felt "a part of" was the Dragon Ball/Z/GT Information Site's (I think that's what it was) Indeed (and not the employment site, lol) chat.

EDIT: Yeah, it was (the "ULTIMATE Dragon Ball/Z/GT Information Site", actually). It was eventually renamed "The Grand Line" but the original site is still underneath.
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SydnieStarlight
04/18/2024
08:29 AM
#8
I think I started with AIM, but I didn't really get into the IM stuff until MSN. Ooh, just thinking about it is hitting me with nostalgia! I had a Yu-Gi-Oh! friend group I chatted with all the time on there. When it shut down, we moved to Skype, then Facebook, and now we're on Discord. We gained a couple but lost a lot more over the years. Such is life, I suppose. I think all those old friends of mine would be blown away if they saw me now~
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Ratchetrockon
04/18/2024
08:30 AM
#9
Runescape!!!
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Sufferedphoenix
04/18/2024
08:33 AM
#10
Yahoo messenger. Ended up mostly doing role-playing on it. They had whole user made chat rooms on there for that. But I think one particular chat room is what caused the user created ones to be taken down. It was titled slave auction and what that boiled down to was some role playing slave buyers and others playing sex slaves being sold. Once sold you'd go into private messaging and continue the role play

And we'll the chatrooms where full of literal kids
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TyVulpine
04/18/2024
08:36 AM
#11
Yahoo Messenger.
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Gobstoppers12
04/18/2024
08:39 AM
#12
AIM was the first thing I really used. Then battle.net old school, through Diablo 2 and Starcraft.
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PMarth2002
04/18/2024
08:57 AM
#14
forums or AIM i think. I don't remember which was first.
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
04/18/2024
08:58 AM
#16
AOL Chat Rooms, I was 12 so it would have been like 1997? I remember because it was a teenager chatroom and I wasn't quite a teenager and felt like I didn't belong there.
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viewmaster_pi
04/18/2024
09:01 AM
#17
yahoo messenger
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Hejiru
04/18/2024
09:05 AM
#18
AOL dial-up
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Hayame_Zero
04/18/2024
09:06 AM
#19
Message boards. Specifically the Nintendo.com ones.
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tankboy
04/18/2024
09:07 AM
#20
Various dial-up BBS chats, although you could say that wasn't The Internet. I guess email, then.
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