In the early days of the Internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards.
People used the bulletin boards – a kind of primitive online forum – to chat about everything from lost belongings to parking at the Philadelphia university.
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