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The first online flame wars were about detergent
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Before the web was a corporate nightmare of targeted ads, it was mostly just university nerds violently disagreeing over mundane household items on Usenet. Some of the very first recorded digital flame wars involved intense, hyper-intellectual essays about the optimal brand of detergent, proving that humanity's desire to be right online has existed since day one.
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