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Despite all the nostalgia for the "utopian" early days of the internet, things could get pretty nasty. Case in point: the Meow Wars of 1996-98, a mass shitposting "flame war" on Usenet, the biggest online forum of the era, in which the Beavis and Butthead newsgroup effectively managed to cripple the entire website through a coordinated trolling campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow_Wars?wprov=sfti1#
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