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email chains. Super long email chains that you had to scroll really far down to actually see the content

mikece on Nov 23, 2020 [–]

I suppose newsgroups might have been a vector for that -- it's where we got the term "flame wars" though I think the popularity of those waned quite a bit by the late 90s.

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