When I was a tween (or almost) someone developed a beef with a local sysop and started posting, “WE HAD A DEAL!!!” over and over on the BBS’s graffiti wall that you saw at login. It became a local meme and people started posting it everywhere in the local calling zone for no particular reason. It was the first sort of flash event I saw, and a significant development in the local culture I was in, but today that culture has been entirely destroyed, and it’s a weird thing I don’t share with anyone. But it always comes to mind as though it might be relevant, and never is.
Becoming a local meme on local internet had to be so much worse than it is today. No gen alpha child will understand the pain of getting dunked on by all 10 of the people that had a computer near you
System Operator. In non-nerd speak, it was the person who owned and ran the local public fourms website on their home computer. Lemmys instance admins are usually sysops for example, as they have root admin privleges or direct hardware access to the computer that the Lemmy instance software runs on.
This person is talking about an admin of a local fourm site early internet users used before centralized social media like MySpace and Facebook made Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) irrelevant.
When I was a tween (or almost) someone developed a beef with a local sysop and started posting, “WE HAD A DEAL!!!” over and over on the BBS’s graffiti wall that you saw at login. It became a local meme and people started posting it everywhere in the local calling zone for no particular reason. It was the first sort of flash event I saw, and a significant development in the local culture I was in, but today that culture has been entirely destroyed, and it’s a weird thing I don’t share with anyone. But it always comes to mind as though it might be relevant, and never is.
WE HAD A DEAL!!
Exactly. Every time I see the phrase, I want to go all “disco ball”.
I’m trying to help make it a thing for you buddy 👍🏻
If you’re going to make something a thing for me, please make it en flique.
WE HAD A DEAL!!
Wow, you have absolutely captured the spirit of the thing. Nostalgic!!
Becoming a local meme on local internet had to be so much worse than it is today. No gen alpha child will understand the pain of getting dunked on by all 10 of the people that had a computer near you
Sysop?
System Operator. In non-nerd speak, it was the person who owned and ran the local public fourms website on their home computer. Lemmys instance admins are usually sysops for example, as they have root admin privleges or direct hardware access to the computer that the Lemmy instance software runs on.
This person is talking about an admin of a local fourm site early internet users used before centralized social media like MySpace and Facebook made Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) irrelevant.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I also had no idea what BBS was.
Was it also spammed in L.O.R.D. as well?
Didn’t exist yet.