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Let’s start a deeper dive by talking about the term netiquette, which may be the most familiar to you. This term predates the modern Internet by quite a few years — 1983, specifically. This was the era when bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were the primary means of communicating online.

The acronym BBS doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Maybe the national services CompuServe, The Source, and America Online can help you (not so fondly) remember the days when you had to save up for a faster modem — such as 56Kbps or even (gasp!) ISDN.

The two prominent dictionaries have slightly different definitions of netiquette, but it’s useful to keep both in mind:

 The Oxford English Dictionary defines netiquette as “the correct or acceptable way of communicating on the Internet.”

 Merriam-Webster (http://m-w.com) defines netiquette as “etiquette governing communication on the Internet.”

Netiquette rules vary, depending on the forum you’re in. For example, email rules are different from when you’re chatting in a live forum. We go into more detail about those differences later in this chapter.