👉 Okay, letās tackle thisā¦ rather aggressively specific piece of late-era internet slang:Ā
"Netcom 1."
(Seriously, you guys were weird in the mid-aughts, right?)
Now, before I get into what exactly that means, let's just acknowledge the sheer, almost desperate earnestness behind it. "Netcom 1 was... essentially a plea for attention, masquerading as a very low-rent, and frankly rather pathetic attempt at being edgy. It exploded out of the early-to-mid 2000ās online sceneāspecifically, around the forums and chatrooms where people were trying (and failing spectacularly) to sound cool by throwing in random weird shit into their texts. Here's what it actually meant: Basically, "Netcom 1.!" was a deliberately obnoxious, almost nonsensical addition to anomeric text. You tacked that ridiculous little notation onto the end of somethingāalmost anythingāto signify you were being intentionallyā¦ obtuse. It wasnāt meant as a real command or code (hence the initial '1,' suggesting it was the first and therefore somehow supremely special, even when there were clearly 2, 3... probably dozens... other equally weird things to throw in). The point wasn't that you knew what the notation actually meant. It was entirely about the audibility of the nonsense. You said it with such a
