The early days of the internet were like the Wild West. As more and more people explored this new digital frontier, clashes of culture, belief, and language became inevitable. Eventually a loose framework of rules developed to help guide online social interactions and expectations, and "netiquette" was born (a portmanteau of "internet" and "etiquette").
Netiquette is a rather old-fashioned term these days, along with "surfing the web" and the "information superhighway”. Still, in an era where social media platforms have devolved into increasingly nasty battlegrounds and social engineering cyberattacks only get worse every year, perhaps it's time we took a step back and reminded ourselves what netiquette means.
