¶ Dangerous 90s Internet Chat Room Stories
What is up everyone ? Welcome back to another episode of the Babbles Nonsense Podcast . Today , miss Ivy is back joining us . We are talking about things that we did in the 90s that have may not have been so smart Her more so than me . We talked about the messenger apps . We had the chat rooms , things like that .
So it's kind of just more of a humorous episode and her telling us stories about what she did and how she somehow did not get kidnapped . So if you want a good laugh , definitely tune into this one . What is up , everyone ? Welcome back to another episode with miss ivy . What up , ivy ?
Hi , so , ivy , you had this broad idea for this podcast that you wanted to talk about , about how we almost all died in the 90s .
It came about because I was on the road , having to drive and suffer , but I tend to what do you call it ? Listen to those podcasts . What is it ? Crime Junkies Like true crime stuff , yes , okay . Crime Junkies and the other one that , um , what is it ?
Uh , ashley flowers has about more true crime , lots of true crime I've never been like a true crime person .
Like the documentaries almost kind of scare me because like people , like people don't realize , like these are murders , actual murders , like real life murders . I'm like not okay , gives me the heebie-jeebies it's really not .
It's not okay because , like , they're mostly unsolved and it's it's literally really sad and gross because they're , like usually women . Like it's horrible and each episode is long enough that it's like almost an hour , but it's really great for road trips , right ?
So I'm , like you know , driving from Destin listening to murder podcasts and I was like thinking hmm , it's a wonder that I didn't get murdered because why did you think you were gonna get murdered ?
so short story long like we grew up in the 90s .
Obviously like yeah and you know we grew up like the beginning of aol right the internet very unregulated , extremely unregulated we're not because , like limewire , always was having viruses on my computer oh , absolutely always .
Oh , even downloading illegal music , breaking your family computer all the time , all the time you know , and you would even think like , oh , how did you get away with all this ? Like wasn't your computer in the family room ? Oh , absolutely it was , but like our parents didn't know or they were at work they totally were .
Yeah , I mean , you would do shit like you know delete the message from school before your parents even got home .
Whatever , it's cool no , didn't do that okay , hey , whatever no judgment . I don't think I had aim . I think I had aim , but I don't think I had it until I was like 16 or 17 . Okay , I look like a terrible person . When did you ?
have aim . Oh lord , I had aim . Okay , my parents must have been just real naive . Okay , I had no business .
Let's back up for those of you that are younger and didn't grow up with these things . Basically it's like facebook messenger now it's well , not really . It's more of a . It's a chat room . Oh , absolutely so .
It's a chat room that you download and technically you're only supposed to chat with your friends , but , like , anyone can find you and you have all these weird ass names like I don't even remember what mine was at the time oh my it might have been like something like chickadee one , two , three I don't know like you just have these weird names oh , mine was
probably like skater girl 98 , but I could never skate yeah like I don't remember what mine was , I was just popping off in my head .
But okay , now go ahead with your story oh , it was definitely skate or something with like an eight and nar . It's fine . I was probably like 13 or 14 , had no business being in chat rooms .
Let's just also say that , and like I am 100 sure that my parents had no clue , you know , about regulating this , because they also didn't know about the internet right and how like ? Oh , there's no way that my 13 or 14 year old would be on chat rooms with weirdos . Why would she ever do that ?
oh , I would . I also never chatted with anyone I didn't know , ever like I knew all these people . Are you serious ? Yeah , like they were like my high school friends . No , for real , like for real . I don't think I ever chatted .
If I do , I don't remember it oh , it's a wonder , like oh god , so yeah , go ahead , tell your story . Oh jesus , okay , so this is even better . So it's a , it's a real wonder that I didn't end up like kidnapped and murdered . It was probably because I was ugly and gross oh my god , stop .
No , I'm kidding .
I'm just that's a really awful joke to make . Oh , my god , I'm going to hell . Okay , so , like okay , so I will continue . So I was like way too young , should not have been in these aimed chat rooms with , like god , god knows who , what , where , when , why .
So I'm sure just chatting with anybody , everybody you know , and I'm sure , of course , lying about my age , because it was all the rage to do this .
Oh my .
God , um , also , did I mention you know my name was like skater . You know , did I skate ? No , absolutely not , definitely didn't skate . And you would lie about your age like 16 , because it was cool to be like 16 , but you weren't 16 . Definitely .
Who are you chatting up and why were you chatting to these people ?
And what would you be chatting about ? Like why ? Weren't you outside the house playing in the yard . That's a great question . It's probably how it ended up , how I did , I don't know , do you ?
have , like , any specific memories of these conversations or anything that you can recall .
I'm sure they were really weird . Um , no , not really , except for one that brought up this whole like deep subconscious memory of how did I not end up murdered ? So , um , short story long , um , my parents were divorced , and this brings up this relevant point because , so , so you know , we went to my dad's house , was it every weekend or every other weekend ?
Okay , so you know , divorced dad house , you know you got two separate computers and his was kind of in the the , maybe the family room tucked away , you know , and he's like just kind of getting through the weekend . You know like he and and for sure definitely does not know that shenanigans are afoot . And then , like you know , unregulated Internet use .
Yeah .
Because why would I ever be doing anything bad on AIM and talking to God knows who ?
Right .
Right , so I was probably 14 , maybe 15 . 14 , maybe 15 , and , oh my god , um for sure , talking to I don't know everybody , anybody that was on god knows what chat room um , definitely very old men , very old , oh my god , you know . Oh my god , I'm sorry , mom .
Please , I hope my mom doesn't listen to this ever well , I mean it's fine now because you're alive . Yeah , I know , like really and like educated and like , oh my god , didn't fuck my life up and not dead .
Um , definitely I was talking to anybody , everybody I don't even know , um , and for sure , uh , I distinctly remember this person was very old , it was a very old guy and I was sending him pictures just of me , like just of course , with clothes on , okay with clothes , okay , but you just said sending pictures .
I was over here thinking sending nudes no , not sending nudes , but this was like you know . Of course , we didn't have phones , cell phones didn't ? They existed .
But I think , like they had to be like flip phones .
Maybe the picture was low quality yeah , I was like this was probably like what , 97 , 98 , maybe um , 97 , yeah , possibly um low quality . So you had to like , hook it . You had a digital camera and then you hooked it up to the computer and then like and then you download . What kind of pictures were you sending ?
Just like me in my room , my cool , like band t-shirt , okay , like , and was he sending you photos ? Um , I think he sent me one or two and we're talking like an old fat man with like curly , grayish brown hair why did you continue talking to him ?
so here is where it gets like the worst thing ever , and I'm shocked that , like how you didn't end up on a date line , okay , it gets so much worse , okay , like this is literally so horrific . Um , so thankfully , uh , my dad didn't ever want to do anything or take us anywhere , and this is like a god sin , you guys .
So , um , this like disgusting old man was going to take pictures of me and I was going to take pictures of you talking about .
I wish I wasn't serious . Okay , so hold on , back up , back up , back up , back up . So did y'all make a plan to hang out ? And he said he was gonna like photograph you . Yes , okay , bitch , come on now , I know like that is okay .
What the fuck continue ?
with your story , isn't ?
this horrible like . The more I , the more it comes out of my mouth . I'm like this is so disgusting like you're not done .
You're not dumb , so why ? Why did you fall for this ? I'm gonna be your photographer , bullshit was I dumb then ? Yes , I guess starved for attention so he said he's going to take your photos , like he asked you to be a model . Pretty much Okay . And then did you ask any questions like oh hell , no , where are we going ?
I'm sure not how much is this going to cost ?
Oh God , no .
Okay .
No , I vaguely remember we had plans to meet at the Space and Rocket Center . Mm-hmm yes , where I don't remember , like in the parking lot versus who drove you if you couldn't , no one did no one did so . I was gonna have my dad driving into the space , and what ?
were you gonna tell your dad and you were gonna get in the car with this man and probably take you somewhere , and that would have been the end of your life . Probably very likely so what happened ?
nothing , nothing happened , thank god so that's correct .
Shout out to the dad not taking you to the space and rockets .
What did the man say when you didn't show up , I am very sure that we never talked again , probably because I , you know , couldn't show up to this weird ass pedophile rendezvous . Um , probably never talked again after that .
So lifesaver alert to my dad that you know like , because I'm sure god knows what my weird ass excuse was like hey , dad , I need to go to the space and rocket center . Who knows what I made up , you know like for some weird . Of course I didn't say because I need some creepy old man to photograph me .
I cannot , I can't , I cannot . That is insane . What any other stories that you've done like that ? Or was that the only one ?
Um , the one other funny one , and this was my brother like . This just shows you how naive our parents were .
He was really addicted to the computer too and , like , would stay up all night on the computer , click clacking , and one time my mom was trying to um , restrict or ground him from the computer , and so she pulled the , pulled a cord out of the , the wall or what she thought was the computer , and he goes oh , I guess I'm not printing tonight , but she didn't
hear that . This just shows you they were so naive about the computers . So if that's the level , so I mean , just like the , the , the fuckery that occurred , you know it was . Oh my god anyway .
Okay , so like I was a good child , obviously , and the computer was in my bedroom , oh my god , but like I , literally , if it was aim , it was like my boyfriend that I was talking to at the time or any of my friends in school we were talking about like schoolwork and stuff like that .
Like I don't remember talking to anybody I didn't know on any of those like AOL or AIM things .
No , are you serious , dead serious , oh my god , like if I did , like it's literally left my memory and I do not remember , but I do not think I did no , I guess I must have been like attention seeking and a terrible person well , like you were trying to die , apparently , so I was trying to just leave this earth like a terrible way did you do anything else
? stupid like that . Like have you ever like been on dates with people ?
no , thank god I never did and , like my mom beat my ass one time because , like , apparently I just was attention seeking horribly because , um , I guess from AOL chat rooms I called long distance a bunch of times and this is like , obviously before cell phones right and your phone bill comes in .
Yeah , oh my god , I was in the kitchen of our apartment one time and I she came in obviously pissed because I mean I can't even imagine how , like you come in so tired from work , can you imagine you've got two badass kids , but one me , ie , me , um , who's just now run up like I don't even know how many dollars in the phone bill .
Did she ask you who you were talking ?
to no , she just whooped my ass , which I deserved .
I'm shocked she wasn't like who the hell do you know long distance that you're calling ? I mean , she didn't even what kind of conversations were you having with these people . I don't even know Like long conversations who even knows ? I was probably like 15
¶ Nostalgic Technology and Childhood Memories
, what are you talking about ? It's so funny , though , because I used to love talking on the phone , because I had my own phone in my room , you know where you had a separate phone line from your parents , and I just loved talking on the phone , like after school and stuff . But now that I have my cell phone , like please , don't call me .
Like please , whatever you do , don't call me , just text me . Isn't that weird that is I mean because texting wasn't a thing back then .
But like I was talking to my aunt last night , like how we're all , like our generation is kind of used to like instant gratification because we have everything at our fingertips , whether that be the internet with information , whether that be , you can text someone and get a text right back .
So like we're not used to like waiting game , and when we have to wait it almost gets like very obnoxious and annoying but what's weird is we didn't grow up like , no , we didn't .
Yeah , we had to .
I mean , we our generation , though , did . It was like we had . It was well .
It was half without technology and then half our life with technology , so like we were at that cusp of when technology was just kind of coming around we even grew up like the texting , as far as like we had to pay per text , pay per text and then you had to t9 it where you had to , where you had to like , like , click , like , whatever the number the
letter corresponded with the number you like . If it was a , like a s or a t , you had to click it twice or three times .
That's what that yes , it was t9 texting or whatever , and it would take you like 500 years just to write a text and so you just got a lot of one words , and that's why that's when we started changing like your to you are or stuff like that . That's what it is yeah because it was like why am I going to spell this out ?
it's going to take me 500 years just to type it out on this flip phone and the pictures were so low quality , oh , extremely grainy yeah I mean nothing wrong with that though no , nothing wrong with that let me another juicy one yeah just think about you know now , that we're opening up pandora's box and I'm embarrassing myself on the podcast we might as well .
Um , hilarious but horrible . Um , this one is a tried and true . Um . Another internet jewel , if you will . I was definitely , I guess , around this time I must have . I was a terrible teenager . I should really just like um give my mom the world at this point , because she put up with so much shit . I think I was probably 13 or so , 14 possibly .
Um , I wanted to go to an orgy concert .
Um with an internet . Stranger wait . Orgy meaning a heavy metal band . Okay , I was like or something . Okay , because no , no god no , not like a orgy . Yeah , so it was a band named orgy .
Yes , terrible name okay , I know , I , god knows I . Apparently I was into , like you know , the like heavy metal shit or something and wanted to be cool and go . How dare she not let me go to a heavy metal concert with a stranger from the internet in Birmingham ? How ?
dare she . How did you meet ? Was this another AIM friend ? This is just so bad . So you met an AIM friend that wanted to take you to a concert in Birmingham . Was this another older man ?
okay , so I think , if I remember , probably like late teens , supposedly right supposedly , supposedly , because you know yeah , because everybody tells the truth on the internet right .
And then she told you no , because she's like hell to the no , like you're not going to Birmingham with a total stranger correct as a mother should say Absolutely yes .
And that night I decided to , I guess , test every boundary under the sun and I called my mom a bitch . How do you think that went ?
Yeah , whooping .
The worst whooping of my life .
I can still probably feel it .
Oh man , I think wooden spoon hand . She whooped me from the window to the wall Like the yin yang twins . We're talking so bad . Like she let me go . Like I can still see it in my mind's eye . Like I I called her a bitch in the living room , okay , and she let me get to my room , okay , do you understand ? And close the door .
And then she came walking down and then , like the door I remember like probably flew off the hinges . Basically she just whooped my ass and the more that I talk , the realize that I , uh , sound like a maury povich teen . This is super embarrassing .
I'm pretty sure maury povich was more of like . Is he the father ? Okay ?
or dr phil , dr phil teen . Yeah , I sound like a dr phil teen .
You know , we've never really talked about our childhoods to each other , and the more that you are explaining this to me , I'm like you were a very troubled child . I was you're a good adult that's true .
I worked out a lot . I think I put my mom through someone's shit and now you wonder you guys are badass kids .
They put you through the same . They are not karma's a bitch , I'm just kidding . I'm just kidding , but they are getting to their teenage years and we'll just have to see what happens . They're probably going to test you out , just like you tested your mom out .
They're going to , I'm going to have to pay the piper .
That's what they say , though they say like you , like whatever you did , like your kids . Your kids give it back to you , but tenfold . I don't know if that's true or not , but that's what they say .
I recently asked my mom . I was like what did you do to ?
deserve me . What did she did ? She say she was a good child ? Pretty much . So I'm like well , also , don't pray for patience , because you could have been the prayer that came for patience . Wait , I can't wrap my head around that .
So they say don't pray for patience because every time you pray for patience , god will continue to send you something that's going to make you patient . But it's actually like you know , if you don't have patience , it's going to make you so agitated because you don't have patience .
But he's sending it to you to become more patient oh , okay maybe she prayed for patience and you came along . Maybe that's what she did . That's horrible . I'm just that's really . I'm trying to think if there was anything else in the 90s that like we all did . Like I walked home from school , like my mom , let us walk home from school .
Or like walk to school . When I was in kindergarten and my sister was in first grade oh my god . And I remember my sister being like , let's not go to school I was like , no , it's right . I mean it was literally right across the yard . She could see us walking to school , oh my god .
And but then , like we moved to another area and our school was literally just like down the street . But like from second grade on , yeah , I was walking , walking home from school , like but you didn't think about it bent then , like like neighborhoods were fine , like you could just play in the street , walk in the street .
You weren't thinking like someone's just going to step outside their house and pull you into their house and you'll never see your child again . Like today .
That's true , yeah , I mean now , like nowadays , like in neighborhoods , like you're not seeing like camaraderie or anything you're seeing , like people just being in their houses they're not really outside waving at each other . You don't really know your neighbor's name maybe people do in certain places but like that's just not the norm that I've been raised in .
Like when I was growing up we did like I knew a bunch of my neighbors and we all hung out , the kids all hung out together . We played in the street , rode our bicycles , that kind of thing that is true .
Oh yeah , we didn't . I mean like got from the morning to the dusk right , played outside right all day we drank hose water yeah , same same .
Maybe that's what's wrong . Well , I mean , you know your parents would always tell you like you either get inside or you get outside . Stop coming in and out my door , you know it's like . And now kids just sit inside on their video games , which is also you know what .
Though I thought about this video games also have those chats and I wonder awesome , you didn't know that . Yeah , video games have , like where people can join your games and you can chat with them , like via headset and stuff oh , okay , yes , and we , um , what do you call it ?
I think that's on roblox and all kinds of things there's a louise monitors that through via app and so yeah , we've got that monitored . You can but like if you're talking about roblox .
Like I was watching episodes of keeping up with the kardashians and like one of her kids was playing roblox or whatever it is and someone popped up on her thing with a naked picture of her mom , saying your mom's a whore . So like people can still get to you just infiltrate right crap . And I was just like , oh my , so there .
So chat rooms still exist in that kind of form , if you think about it , like through video games oh my god , yeah , okay , well , we're all screwed , okay , great , I mean there's also more protection now than I think there was back then , because people just believed everyone was good in the 90s .
Like people literally was just like oh , that could never happen to me . Like , but not to mention like all the serial killers before that , I mean .
Drew yes . So , everybody believes . Yes , I mean obviously my 13 year old self had no business being on chat rooms .
I mean , I will say I was on them , but I do not recall ever accepting requests from people I did not know .
Oh wow , I mean that was great . Obviously that's wonderful . I had no business being on . I don't know .
You know what I did not actually I take that back . I didn't get AIM or AOL until I was 17 , about to graduate high school . And I say that because my boyfriend I was a senior in high school and he was in college and he had it and that's how he would talk to me .
Because you know , we paid for texting back then yeah , so that's how he would talk to me and he told me to download it and I think it was AOL messenger oh yeah , because you couldn't like you had to pay for minutes , unless it was after nine o'clock , I think , on the cell phone so like yeah , you're right , and of course my bedtime was way before nine
o'clock still is love it , love that for me , I mean . But can you think of anything else in the 90s other than our cartoons were way better , but people didn't realize like they were all so bad , like ren and stimpy , um , what was the other one with beavis and butthead ?
Oh , beavis and butthead , ren and stimpy , um , all those cartoons that were not educational , but they like they like spongebob , with all the innuendos in there , like they were not . Like they are now , where they're teaching you to count and teaching you different languages oh no , they're so good now and like now they were trash .
Back then my uncle took us to see the Beavis and Butthead movie and it was right before Christmas , I think , because we called my mom from a pay phone in Madison Square Mall and told her that we were at the movies and going to see the Beavis and Butthead movie and she was so angry . She was like you are not going to get any Christmas presents .
We laugh about it now , but it was super hilarious , super dramatic then , but anyways , can you think of anything else ? Oh god , thank you for sharing your scary stories . I'm so glad that you're still alive and in front of me today and you've learned from your mistakes . You're not doing that now , are you ?
no , and the best part is , my dad has no idea that , like you know , um , he was very close to dropping me off at the Space and Rocket Center to get murdered .
Pretty much , yeah , or worse . There's worse things than murder sometimes . Anyways , guys , until next time , we will see you , yeah , on the next episode . Bye .