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Comment by zhoujianfu

3 hours ago

I ran a message board for a little bit back in 1997 but I didn’t really moderate it and just left it alone. I came back months later and it had somehow become a strange two-topic forum. I assume because somebody had randomly posted about each, a search engine had indexed it and more people searching for each of those topics found it.

It was pretty funny seeing the threads where the two groups talked past each other, confused what the other was talking about.

The first topic was “AOL PUnterz” which as far as I could understand were programs/scripts that could maybe crash somebody else’s aol connection and disconnect them? A pretty leet thing to do I guess when you got in an aol argument.

The other topic was Hanson and their hit song mmmbop.