[Story] I once snapped on some idiot

[Dolly Buster]

in Yahoo audio chat 20-ish years ago

His username ended in 69, so I thought he was making a sexual insinuation which irritated me.

After I lambasted him, it turns out he is some disabled guy, and probably only chose 69 as his birth year 1969.

[AlbanianLegend1994]

I never used Yahoo audio chat but I remember a similar situation using MSN chatrooms in 1999 (or was it 2000?). I went in with a female name (I had "single, not looking" on my profile), but some guy from the UK asked me if I can "touch the mic" for him. Back then I remember thinking, "this guy doesn't actually mean use the microphone right, he means something sexual, why is he talking about 'touching?'" It just sounded perverted to me.

[Lucy]

Yahoo had some weirdly Esoteric people

[AlbanianLegend1994]

Yahoo had some weirdly Esoteric people

Do you remember fireball226 (later renamed herself to Fireball)

There's even an urbandictionary entry on her (and a term she coined)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tirh