At 11:11 AM, Thursday, January 23, 2003 Star Drifter posted the following:
Netiquette

Hoo-yeah! The dirtiest word on the internet today! No one wants to abide by it any more. While I'm certainly no authority, I just want to vent about a few points.

• Grammer. If my family wants to send me a text message on my cell phone from one of their cell phones that says "talk 2 u l8r," then that's okay. Hey, even if they email it to my cell. There's only limited space.
  If someone on a message board wants to type "nice talkin 2 u l8r d00dr" then I'll take him less seriously. I'm sorry, but it's not too hard to learn to type. As I write this, www.download.com has one hundred and eleven free typing tutor style programs. Free. I learned it in high school. For free. "sry dudr but ur day's r #'d"
• Etiquette Things were just different back when I got online. There were more "hobbyists," or people who were actively trying to expand the internet and stake out a piece by building. Nowadays, it's all put aside for some misled notion of "free speech." Not only do we not shout fire in a grocery store, but we don't shout streams of obscenities there either. That's someone's property, and they're constitutionally allowed to make the rules. The internet is full of web diaries and free message boards - and even irc servers which give free chat rooms at the press of a couple buttons. Everyone can have their say - they've only got themselves to blame if no one wants to hear it.

These are really the two biggest points. From day one, people have tried to push for the easy way out. Either by typing "u" instead of "you," or throwing fits to get attention in a community they didn't help build, they'll take the easy way.

It's sad to sometimes see the whole thing getting slowly worse.