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Not knowing the ASL prompt casts some doubt on your claim to remember the internet back then. Knowing someone's age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn't the aim.
So that ASL is just a question about how old I am and where I live? Why not ask this straightforwardly especially after I claimed that I don't understand the question?
English isn't my first language. Not even a second one. You can't expect me to know all the slang/abbreviations/etc.
I'm 40. From Eastern Europe.
It wasn't.
ASL was extremely useful. We only had usernames, no profile pictures or anything else. ASL is what you asked if you were chatting on quakenet or another server. Most of the time you knew the regulars on your channel. Often mods would ask your ASL and if it turned out later you were lying then you'd get kicked or muted.
And that was fine. We never cared if you were a kid or something. You talk like a decent human, you share information like an educated human -- welcome. Regardless of boobs, age and whatever irrelevant things you might have.