For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.
Don’t Feed the trolls
Don’t be a dick.
On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn’t very openly disclose them.
Now many people think the latter is ok.
Don’t feed the trolls
but then I post on lemmy.world and get so so many repliesI’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.
Don’t meet people from online.
When reading a long text, disconnect from the internet as soon as it has loaded so you don’t pay for the time you spend reading.
Social media killed online aliases and I have a hard time deciding if we’re all worse for it.
Instinctively I still stick by that, though, as you can tell by my anonymous profile with no bio, but when I volunteer any amount of personal info these days people are often confused that I’m not sharing openly who I am or where I’m from. Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
Make sure you use the right type of search engine for the type of information you want.
1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech
Never trust anything you read on the internet
Me too, thanks.
(Except other dogs, and we meet every night on irc:#awoo)
This shit’s still true. I bet you’re taking me seriously as you read this and everything.
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s…
I was taught to cite websites by using the date the page was updated. Now I’m lucky if web pages even have a date on them.
Oh, that one’s easy! Just use the internet archivenevermind.
Either that, or the page says that it’s been updated in the last month, but the content is about how to connect to the World Wide Web ‘(WWW)’ with a free AOL floppy disc
Don’t share your personal information online.
Yeah that’s definitely not being followed anymore.
