----- Original Message -----
From: Delirium <delirium(a)rufus.d2g.com>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:49 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Unadmissible Evidence (dan)
> Anthere wrote:
>
> > Dan Drake a écrit:
> >
> >> Me too (pardon the expression). It hadn't been clear to me that
> this
> >> was part of the package.
> >
> > Dan...why do you write "pardon the expression". Is that not
> correct to
> > write "me too" ?
>
> In internet culture, "me too" has come to be a somewhat notorious
> phrase
> associated with AOL users and other "internet newbies". It comes
> from
> AOL message boards (and possibly Prodigy or other message boards
> before
> that) where often when someone would post something about how they
> liked
> a movie or song or something, there'd be 10 replies that basically
> just
> said "me too". Sometimes in more words ("I also like that!" or
> something), but the effect was the same, so these became known as
> "me
> too" posts.
Prodigy, definitely. I first began living on the computer cuz of that during 1992.
It was as bad as AOL is now. Then again, I was 8 then, so I was a bit of a brat myself.:-)
John