When I got my first Windows-based computer back in 1991, the internet web browser was just coming out. I was a member of a few privately owned dial-up bulletin boards at the time, as well as AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. At that time it was as close to one could get to what is now known as the internet.
Each bulletin board had a FAQ forum or section and one of them was always entitled "Etiquette." With no exception, each and every one of them considered it bad etiquette to use acronyms (with a few exceptions), type in all capital letters, fail to use proper punctuation, or to write out their sentences. It was commonly known as "Bulletin Board Etiquette" or "BB Etiquette."
Then when the web browsers came around, the bulletin boards started dying and forums sprang up on the internet. All forums that I ever visited at that time had the same FAQ forum section, with the same requirements for etiquette.
Fast forward twenty years or so, the requirement for etiquette has disappeared completely. What happened?
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