http://www.historyoftheinternet.comSection: Internet forums & chat rooms
Category: Member identity reveal
Subsection: tactics & strategies to reveal other member identities IRL
Method age: believed to be the third oldest method on the internet
Invention date: March 4, 1993
Methodology: Find photo of a "non cool" person with same name as Internet forum member. Post photo online with caption "This is our exalted (insert name)??!!? He looks teh lame!!"
Strategy concept: In very rare cases the photo will actually be the member under consideration. If the photo is not of the member but the member actually is a legitimate retard IRL, then the member will respond with an actual photo of himself (not
herself because there are no females on the internet) that is (typically) even more embarrassing and/or personally damaging .
Hilarity ensues.