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Originally Posted by DNSB
Jon, Jon, Jon... I was around then and trolling was not used in regards to cybersex. Trolls were persons who found amusement in disrupting newsgroups, messaging systems, chat rooms, games, etc. by posting inflammatory content.
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Inflammatory disruption is a more recent usage, in my understanding. The original Usenet trolling was posting an amusing obviously-untrue factoid, to watch righteous correctors come out of the woodwork to shout about how wrong you were. Snopes, shadows in a vacuum, etc. The word had nothing to do with bridges and mythical creatures; it was derived from the fishing sense of the term. It was less about disruption and more about in-group markers in a network that had little or no effective moderation.