Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agoOn 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed?message-squaremessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down16
arrow-up139arrow-down1message-squareOn 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square52linkfedilink
minus-squareRecursiveParadox@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoI don’t know about the day of, because I was downtown in NYC. I didn’t get home to the Bronx until about ten at night. But I was on Metafilter and a couple of other fora. But these were already mostly asshole free places, so few dicks or tolls as per OP. The whole day - hell the next two weeks - updates of news and speculation about the ratfuckery this would cause dominated the chat/posts.
I don’t know about the day of, because I was downtown in NYC. I didn’t get home to the Bronx until about ten at night.
But I was on Metafilter and a couple of other fora. But these were already mostly asshole free places, so few dicks or tolls as per OP.
The whole day - hell the next two weeks - updates of news and speculation about the ratfuckery this would cause dominated the chat/posts.