“We knows it was you, Frodo. You broke our heartses. Gollum! Gollum! You broke our heartses!”
No. Open the thread, but don’t post unless, after reading responses from people who understood the reference respond, you still don’t know what anybody’s talking about and want to know.
I think you read that correctly, unless, say, there was another thread where you were complaining about acronyms and the poster was trying to be snarky back at you in this thread. But that’s the only circumstance I could see where it could be read as sarcasm as opposed to literally.
By 1993, it was The Internet. There was no World Wide Web yet, but Usenet, MUDs, and FTP were around. I still remember using Archie (I think) to find Neverwinter Nights files to download.
Another factor is the “What does ‘TP’ mean?” poster is from the Australian Outback. They’re not a USAian. I have no doubt the Aussies have all sorts of colorful terminology for all things related to the loo. Most of which would sail over our heads like an Aaron Judge home run.
All of us 'Murricans, myself certainly included, are often guilty of assuming our entire audience is US-based, or even further, have lived their entire life in the USA.
That poster did seem to me to come off a tad ill-tempered. Just as I did in the Boomhauser thread which triggered this thread. Some days are like that.
Mosaic was released in 1993. I also remember accessing the WWW through Gopher, but not the World Wide Web we think of today. I remember buying books at the store that had various WWW links to explore, but the was more the second half of 1994 for me. Yahoo had a presence on Gopher IIRC with some sort of name like Yahoo’s Favorites. No, it was “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.”
Was it? I thought I was hot shit using Links (Linx?) to access the WWW in 1994.
Yeah, that would be like me going on an international board centered in Australia and carping about somebody using the word “bogan.” I mean, I could ask nicely instead of assuming the wider audience doesn’t understand the term, which is how that post comes off.
Pretty sure it was lynx. I remember the graphical browsers taking off really in the summer of 1994. I remember some people toying with them a bit earlier than that, like winter 1993. I myself seem to recall using lynx with help from that proto-Yahoo catalog on Gopher to access WWW around that time, too.
Well, yeah. That’s what I meant.
Most noobs get caught up in the board only inside references.
Maybe its just a confusion.
What’s only on this board? What’s out there allover social media and pop culture?
Who’s that guy? And what’s a home run anyway?
Chicago pizza chain. Delicious. And you can throw their pizzas over people’s heads. 
You’re the one who made the comparison.
We do have a glossary to help people with terms that are unique to this board.
It’s pinned to the About This Message Board category. And that particular glossary just turned 20 years old this month!
Funny coincidence. I was with a group of friends on Saturday and somebody mentioned Aaron Judge - and almost all of us had no idea who Aaron Judge was. So the person who mentioned him explained.
So you posted on the one week I’ll get this reference.
“Aaron Judge” is a fictional character, frequently appearing in humorous New Yorker magazine stories. The name is a pun on the phrase, “error in judgement”, and his poor choices often bring ironic consequences.
It’s entirely possible that nothing I wrote above is true.
No, I’m pretty sure Aaron Judge was released in New York City’s Central Park in 1890 because he was mentioned in a Shakespeare play.
Jolly good.
Endorse. Better to err on the side of making better OPs. That said, pop cultural questions tend to matter less, so I’d give more latitude in Cafe Society, the original location of the King of the Hill thread.
That explains it. I believe that Australian wipe with wallabys. They might say “Pardon me, gov, can you spare a wallaby or two? I need to make a didgeridoo.”