Silly you!! You never bothered to think of where the internet word 'troll' got it's origins. It's not a new concept, not at all.
When I first heard it regarding the internet, I immediately thought of the fishing term 'trolling'....fishermen drag a baited line through the water, looking for 'bites'. Get the similarity?? People DID use it in real life before now!!
LOL that people think it's 'new'...really it's hilarious.
From wiki:
The verb troll originates from Old French troller, a hunting term. The noun troll comes from the Old Norse word for a mythological monster.[7]
In modern English usage, the verb troll is a fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat.[8]
The word evokes the trolls of Scandinavian folklore and children's tales, where they are often creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.
The contemporary use of the term is alleged to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s,[9] but the earliest known example is from 1992.[10]
Early non-Internet related use of trolling for actions deliberately performed to provoke a reaction can be found in the military; by 1972 the term trolling for MiGs was documented in use by US Navy pilots in Vietnam.[11]
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Silly you!! You never bothered to think of where the internet word 'troll' got it's origins. It's not a new concept, not at all.
When I first heard it regarding the internet, I immediately thought of the fishing term 'trolling'....fishermen drag a baited line through the water, looking for 'bites'. Get the similarity?? People DID use it in real life before now!!
LOL that people think it's 'new'...really it's hilarious.
From wiki:
The verb troll originates from Old French troller, a hunting term. The noun troll comes from the Old Norse word for a mythological monster.[7]
In modern English usage, the verb troll is a fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat.[8]
The word evokes the trolls of Scandinavian folklore and children's tales, where they are often creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.
The contemporary use of the term is alleged to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s,[9] but the earliest known example is from 1992.[10]
Early non-Internet related use of trolling for actions deliberately performed to provoke a reaction can be found in the military; by 1972 the term trolling for MiGs was documented in use by US Navy pilots in Vietnam.[11]
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Wow you got it down to a science lol.