Some background for those that don't know: A bit over 20 years ago there was no Redditating, Metabooking, Twittering, TicTokery, etc. You could sell guns on local USENET .forsale groups but you couldn't sell them on FB or even Armslist because neither would exist for several years. eBay had just changed its gun parts rules but Gunbroker was barely up and running. Gun List and Shotgun News were popular but responding to anything in them would have gotten you some strange looks and been pointless...you'd have been talking to printed material, not typing on a computer or phone. The dotcom bubble had burst but there were these relatively new things called "internet forums" for non-tech topics such as guns, cars, etc. There were some weird and interesting exchanges because you had people from the long-online USENET culture (wiseass college students and grads, college profs and employees, techies, etc., but even with the "Eternal September" of '93, a small number of "normal everyday folks" compared with the last 10 or so years) interacting with the increasing influx of those new to "online" with no real frame of reference about "online."
A new poster appeared on what was then much smaller online gun forums populated by that unusual mix of people. The handle was Gecko45 and scene of the original crime was GlockTalk but the BS soon spread to other forums. I'd post more details, but that would spoil the fun. Just put "gecko45 glocktalk" into your preferred search engine and enjoy(?) the nostalgic nonsense that resulted.
A new poster appeared on what was then much smaller online gun forums populated by that unusual mix of people. The handle was Gecko45 and scene of the original crime was GlockTalk but the BS soon spread to other forums. I'd post more details, but that would spoil the fun. Just put "gecko45 glocktalk" into your preferred search engine and enjoy(?) the nostalgic nonsense that resulted.
