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.
This shit’s still true. I bet you’re taking me seriously as you read this and everything.
(Except other dogs, and we meet every night on irc:#awoo)
Me too, thanks.
Never trust anything you read on the internet
I’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.
you really think someone would do that? go on the internet and tell lies?
I was taught to cite websites by using the date the page was updated. Now I’m lucky if web pages even have a date on them.
Oh, that one’s easy! Just use the internet archivenevermind.
Either that, or the page says that it’s been updated in the last month, but the content is about how to connect to the World Wide Web ‘(WWW)’ with a free AOL floppy disc
Then: Don’t download applications and run executables you don’t fully trust.
Now: Download everyone’s new snazzy app just because and scan everything with your phone that contains all your most private information so you can unlock a surprise!
To be fair computer security have improved a lot. These days if you have up-to-date security patches it’s very hard for apps or webpages to escape the sandbox.
By the way you should download and execute this free_robux.sh as root it will give free robux no scam
Of course. They just ask nicely to be let out, and everyone clicks “allow” reflexively. If you don’t see anything weird, nothing weird could be happening, right? /s
Stay anonymous
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s…
On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn’t very openly disclose them.
Now many people think the latter is ok.
Don’t Feed the trolls
There always have been the nick picks. But now sometimes there is barely any connection between the post and the comments. Like two people with multiple strokes distributed between them having an angry teams call.
Don’t pick up the phone if someone is online… I’m old
I can’t remember. Did it make pterodactyl noises or is that just faxes?
oh yes it made the noise.
The first rule of usenet.
Don’t feed the trolls
but then I post on lemmy.world and get so so many replies
Don’t be a dick.