For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.
Don’t share your personal information online.
Yeah that’s definitely not being followed anymore.
Don’t be a dick.
I learned as a kid playing star craft that there are noobs and newbs. Newbs are people new to a game who need help learning. And a noob is someone who has played for a while and refuses to learn and would rather troll.
I’ve never heard the terms were treated differently. A troll was just called a troll.
Hm, well, there are trolls and there are trawls
I just discovered this morning that my nephew is a noob then.
This actually perfectly fits. He’s been homeless. Let him stay with me. He got a job pretty quick. But today, his fourth day, he was late because he set his alarm for 7:30 instead of 6:30.
I’ve been unconsciously treating him as a newb, because he acts like a teenager. It just automatically activates a father instinct for me.
But he’s almost 30. He’s had plenty of time to figure this shit out.
We went and got groceries last night. He bought almost nothing but simple carbs. Most of that coming from straight sugar. Like, fruit punch drinks and shit. He eats like a six year old at a candy store.
Well, not quite that bad. But bad. And his health is fucked up. He sees no connection between subsisting on simple carbs and having health problems, addiction, etc.
But today, his fourth day, he was late because he set his alarm for 7:30 instead of 6:30.
No excuse. Alarms can be set with a recurring theme or planned to a specific day.
I suggested that he might set a recurring alarm and he refused on the basis that he goes to sleep at different times each night.
His job is at the same time every day! His bus is at the same time every day!
Fuck.
Lol. Can’t help a refusing person, right?
How do you pronounce newb ?
Likely contentious but my experience has been “newb” has a slight vocal raising to indicate light-heartedness, ie:
Noob: no͞ob Newb: nyo͞ob
cheers
Hahaha I used to have a shirt from “Jinx” back when they were cool that said “I eat Nøøbs”.
And “Play in your world. Get pwnd in mine.”
Wouldn’t be caught dead in those now. But haha it was amusing in ~2005.
It was a simpler time where a shirt that simply said “gamer” wouldn’t get you socially sneered at.
Haha that reminds me of a shirt I had around '08/'09 that just said “Awesomesauce.” I kind of miss the silly stuff like that and the shirts you mentioned. It really does seem like it was a simpler time :) Nowadays life is pwning me left and right!
Just made me realize the term is just a shortened form of newbie.
Damn noob ;-)
GG ez noobs.
No re?
I’ve heard this one phrased: “Newbs deserve a helping hand. Noobs deserve a kicking.”
Never disclose any real personal info.
All of them.
Don’t meet people from online.
The rules for abbreviations.
IIRC YMMV bc IANAL
Netspeak fluency has generally given way to textspeak.
ROTFLOLSTCTD
STCTD?
Scaring The Cat To Death
If I recall correctly your mileage may vary because I anal?
It means “I am not a lawyer”, usually at least ;-)
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” -Abraham Lincoln
Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.
The amount of boomer bait on Facebook is staggering. The amount of Boomers falling for obviously AI-generated shite even moreso.
The amount of millennials falling for boomer bait is also staggering
I personally have the opposite issue. Things often sound way too much like satire these days when they get referenced or pop up in memes, then I find a reputable article talking about it. Everything sounds like [email protected]
Most of them. Don’t believe everything you see, don’t give out personal information or real-life pictures… the usual.
Play Team Fortress on weekends. It’s cheaper.
Make sure you use the right type of search engine for the type of information you want.
Since when this was a rule rule??
Before Google dominated you had a different search engine for blogs, mp3s, warez, link pages etc. You also had directories where the content of the web was neatly organised by topic.
Never lived on this era but this feels life a fresh breath of peaceful life.
Don’t believe everything you see. Actually I was taught that about TV, but for some reason the old folks forgot about it being applicable everywhere in life, not just on TV. They also forget about it on TV too.
I’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.
The first rule of usenet.
Sticking around and “lurking” for a bit before you try to engage with a new community, to learn the local etiquette before you make an ass of yourself. Or at least reading the rules as a bare minimum.
Lol, no
Yes! This is a big one that bugs me how often people don’t even attempt this. Darn noobs need to lurk moar! It’s basic netiquette.
