From Thought Catalog: A brief history of my internet usage in the 90s.
What we also do is find a guy to send us his photo without expecting a trade. We need a photo of a good-looking guy. When we acquire one, we call ourselves Adam and create the screen name ‘sk8erbklyn118’. We trade pictures with girls in hopes of snagging an attractive photograph. We need one to send to boys so that they’ll chat with us.
I should do something like this. Though I never used AOL. (Was that a thing in Canada? It wasn’t in Prince Edward Island.) Remembering the names of my early chat sites would be difficult.
