The four types of troll

Try not to get them confused

In the early 1990s, the early internet was growing exponentially. Many of the new users would beeline straight for one of the most active and interesting places online: a Usenet group named ‘alt’. It was a kind of free-for-all group of chat rooms which some said stood for ‘anarchists, libertarians and terrorists’. Old timers on alt, perhaps irate about …