An event or moment · 1999 · Internet
Forum culture
Persistent text spaces with per-topic cultures, norms enforced by social pressure and volume.
Where the pile-on was invented. Fandom moved from letters to threads, and a thread has thousands of people in it at once with no moderator and no cost to replying.
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