phillyflyers
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Taking a risk posting this I think. Don't know what reactions I'll get and expecting all sorts of ridicule but here it goes.
Back from 1998-2000 was the dawn of the internet in this country for most people. Back then, everyone had a dial up service called America Online or AOL.
I first logged on to AOL around 1999. It was then that I discovered that AOL had what they called chat rooms.
I soon discovered two chat rooms that I would frequent the most. This being a political chat room called From the Right 1.
The other being Catholic chat room.
I quickly made friends with a lot of people. Soon, we were talking on a daily basis for hours at a time. It was a lot of fun after a stressful day back then.
One day, in 2000 I believe, we had a visitor to From the Right 1 who had a screen name no one saw before. A first timer in the room.
He said hello and we quickly welcomed him/her into the room.
After these pleasantries were exchanged he asked if he could ask the room a question. We all said sure go right ahead.
This person then said they were thinking about running for office and needed a good slogan.
The first question asked was it for a local office or a national one.
Reply came back that they were thinking national. This got our attention.
After thinking a few moments, I typed in the following and hit the send button...
Make America Great Again.
Exactly.like that, with MAGA capitalized.
The reply came back that's great! Do you have anything else?
I typed in the following and hit the send button...
America First.
Reply came back thanks so much or something along to that affect.
I said your welcome and have a great day and that person left the chat and never came back.
Fast forward almost two decades later and what do I see? Mr. Trump using my slogans that I gave a stranger almost 20 years before in a chat room on AOL.
Now, I am in no way claiming it was Donald Trump in that chat room that day. Not at all.
It could have absolutely nothing to do with him as far as I know. Or it could have been one of people from an exploratory committee looking for a slogan.
I have no idea to this day. But I do wonder about it from time to time.
Who was in that room with me on that day? I'll never know.
I told this story to a friend and he contacted AOL. He was told the chats weren't recorded and there was no way to check an archive.
They told him the only way was if someone in that room copied the chat and saved it on their hard drive.
Well, that's my story. I'm sticking to it. If I'm ever asked to to put my hand on a Bible and swear this story is the truth, I'd gladly do so.
Back from 1998-2000 was the dawn of the internet in this country for most people. Back then, everyone had a dial up service called America Online or AOL.
I first logged on to AOL around 1999. It was then that I discovered that AOL had what they called chat rooms.
I soon discovered two chat rooms that I would frequent the most. This being a political chat room called From the Right 1.
The other being Catholic chat room.
I quickly made friends with a lot of people. Soon, we were talking on a daily basis for hours at a time. It was a lot of fun after a stressful day back then.
One day, in 2000 I believe, we had a visitor to From the Right 1 who had a screen name no one saw before. A first timer in the room.
He said hello and we quickly welcomed him/her into the room.
After these pleasantries were exchanged he asked if he could ask the room a question. We all said sure go right ahead.
This person then said they were thinking about running for office and needed a good slogan.
The first question asked was it for a local office or a national one.
Reply came back that they were thinking national. This got our attention.
After thinking a few moments, I typed in the following and hit the send button...
Make America Great Again.
Exactly.like that, with MAGA capitalized.
The reply came back that's great! Do you have anything else?
I typed in the following and hit the send button...
America First.
Reply came back thanks so much or something along to that affect.
I said your welcome and have a great day and that person left the chat and never came back.
Fast forward almost two decades later and what do I see? Mr. Trump using my slogans that I gave a stranger almost 20 years before in a chat room on AOL.
Now, I am in no way claiming it was Donald Trump in that chat room that day. Not at all.
It could have absolutely nothing to do with him as far as I know. Or it could have been one of people from an exploratory committee looking for a slogan.
I have no idea to this day. But I do wonder about it from time to time.
Who was in that room with me on that day? I'll never know.
I told this story to a friend and he contacted AOL. He was told the chats weren't recorded and there was no way to check an archive.
They told him the only way was if someone in that room copied the chat and saved it on their hard drive.
Well, that's my story. I'm sticking to it. If I'm ever asked to to put my hand on a Bible and swear this story is the truth, I'd gladly do so.
