Scrolls, Trolls, and Rickrolls: The Crisis of Online Harassment

If you noodled around the internet long enough in the 1980s, sooner or later you’d get scrolled. It was a known hazard. You’d be innocently playing Colossal Cave Adventure, minding your own business, throwing axes at dwarfs, and someone on the network would flood your screen with ASCII. Popular among scrollers was an ampersand-only rendering …

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