I think we forget how stressful the old internet used to be.
By @codysorta · Nostalgia
I was trying to explain AIM away messages to my younger coworkers and they just didn't get it. The sheer pressure of picking the right song lyric to make your crush jealous was immense.
The full story
You had one line. ONE. And you had to make it count. It had to be vague enough to have plausible deniability but specific enough that the one person it was about KNEW. We didn't just fire off a story, we performed open-heart surgery on a single sentence for all 150 of our buddies to see. And don't get me started on the politics of your buddy list groups or the anxiety of hearing that door-creak sound when you weren't expecting it. Honestly, it was a full time job.
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