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Why Don't People RP Anymore?

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Katherine Dee
May 24, 2022
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Random Question - any old AOL RPers (circa late 90s early 00s) here?

In the early 2000s—precocious but barely literate—I logged onto America Online, entered a chatroom, and observed a funny conversation.

It read something like this:

Username_1: *pulls out my wand* WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA! Wait… why isn’t my wand working?!

OnlineHost: Username_3 has entered The Tavern

Username_2: ((shoving Username_1 aside))

Username_3: OOC: wait… …

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