[WikiEN-l] Re: Unadmissible Evidence (dan)

[John C. Penta]

----- Original Message -----
From: Delirium <delirium at 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