For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.
Don’t pick up the phone if someone is online… I’m old
Don’t give your credit card details over the internet.
Nowadays people have them saved in their damn browser for convenience.
When you share something cool, link back to the original creator or where you found it from.
Don’t share your personal information online.
Yeah that’s definitely not being followed anymore.
When reading a long text, disconnect from the internet as soon as it has loaded so you don’t pay for the time you spend reading.
Social media killed online aliases and I have a hard time deciding if we’re all worse for it.
Instinctively I still stick by that, though, as you can tell by my anonymous profile with no bio, but when I volunteer any amount of personal info these days people are often confused that I’m not sharing openly who I am or where I’m from. Every time someone does that it weirds me out because in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.
