OTD in 1999... young men suddenly had an interest in women's soccer

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1999

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Great year and no social media. What simpler times.

Actually, aol was at its height back then. I consider aol the grandfather of social media.

My away message said BRB Fapping shortly after the event in question

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I consider aol the grandfather of social media.

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Nah that was ICQ.

Remember exactly where I was. I was at a party with all my dad's military buddies fixated on a tiny TV watching this in a basement. Great time.

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Almost forgot about ICQ

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Ooh! I member!

I didn't give two shits about broads from orange wedge nation playing soccer , for me it was the United States of frick Yea versus #3 with Combo Rice Chi-Comms.

I remember watching that intensely actually.

mIRC for me. Great moment in sports though.

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Actually, aol was at its height back then. I consider aol the grandfather of social media.

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Then CompuServe was the great-grandfather. (I think AOL bought them out in the 90's.)

CompuServe - in the 80's. It was primitive but it had message boards and chat rooms and news articles you could share later in the early 90's.

Compuserve charged like $5 an hour in the mid-80's for the internet which is like $15 today. But it was the first to connect people on a large scale and share information before the 90's.