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Originally Posted by Deathrydar
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Just for the record: Trolling on a classic EverQuest forum is, in itself, Classic!
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Being an
asshole. Not a troll, that came later.
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[Organized, willful trolling did exist before 4chan and Anonymous came around], though at the time it wouldn't (necessarily) have been called that. This was a point of fascination to many of the trolls I interviewed; while they engaged in similar behaviors in the pre-4chan years, they didn't refer to their behaviors as trolling and in fact couldn't remember what they called it, if they called it anything. They've since some to use the term retroactively, but at the time the subcultural definition of the term hadn't yet taken hold, and so they didn't think of themselves as trolls.
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I don't remember troll being a name until around 2010. Sure it existed elsewhere but not in wide use until after the Social Media boom.
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Purportedly, the actual use of the term "troll" dates back to the 80s, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first instance of the term "troll" being used in an online capacity happened on December 14th, 1992 in the usenet group alt.folklore.urban, when someone wrote "Maybe after I post it, we could go trolling some more and see what happens."
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I don't recall people using the term troll like it is used now. It might've been known as such in small circles because the rest of us were not wise to it. They might've had an angle all the way back when.
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In a 1994 article with Wired, Usenet user Trashcan Man gave one of the first real insights into the prototypical troll mindset by describing alt.tasteless' flamewar with the unsuspecting rec.pets.cats, a sort of haven for cat fanciers. In other words, prime bait.
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By my unl33t commoner recall it was Goatse then followed by Rick Rolling then Trolling. Goatse being homosexuals looking to infuriate straights by posting gotcha links to a man spreading his bottom as shock culture was all the rage.
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For better or worse, in 2003, 4chan entered the public consciousness and with it brought what Phillips refers to as "a very specific understanding of the term 'troll,' trolling was something that one actively chose to do. More importantly, a troll was something one chose to be."
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Arguably classic but not by the 4chan date. Formal trolling is post Luclin expansion.
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