>Now if only we could look up everything you said in chatrooms as a 19 year old and post the most inflammatory stuff on HN.

Sure. Wen I was in college, I didn't have the idea of snooping on other students and exploiting them as "dumb fucks" who were stupid enough to trust me.

Most of my public online history starts at around that time too.

And one of my first comments on Slashdot was expressing concern about Facebook violating people's privacy by introducing the feed back in 2006.

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195861&cid=16054826

I was 19 then.