CB
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“10-4 for an eyeball, lil buddy...over?”
~ Oscar Wilde on CB
“For all its faults, IRC is so much better than CB.”
~ This Guy on CB
CB was the popular term for Citizen's Band radio, a sort of proto-internet popular in the 1970s and early 80s. Much like the internet, it was popular amongst truckers, geeks and lonely single men. CB has been popular in the USA since the 40s, and remains so in those states where fornication with farm animals is legal (ie; Alabama). In Europe, CB was unheard of until the release of the wildly-successful film 'Convoy', in which a truck driver named Rubber Duck (a term applied to a short, flexible aerial attached to a hand-held CB) used his radio to organise a massive convoy of trucks in protest at something or other. Despite the huge commercial success of the film, it really isn't worth seeing.
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[edit] Handles
Handles were nicknames used as 'call-signs' by CB users, very much like the names people give themselves on internet chatrooms - for example, "..=0..0=&hearts%stacey_hotgirl14&hearts" or "crazyguy23uk". Much like chatroom names, they usually reflected how the user wished to appear to others rather than the reality.
[edit] CB Slang
CB users had their own language three decades before the emergence of 1337. Many American examples are code words used to warn other mobile users (in the US, CBs were often placed in cars as well as trucks) of police presence and speed traps, especially during the 1970s when the US national speed limit was set at 55mph. The intention was that the police, monitoring the CB frequencies, would be unable to understand codes such as 'Smokey in the trees' (meaning a radar trap hidden by the roadside). Unfortunately, since films like Convoy were equally as popular amongst the police as they were amongst normal humans, the codes were really quite transparent. One notable difference between CB and internet slang is the fact that swearing and the use of abusive language was generally frowned-upon by CB users.
[edit] Why has CB become unpopular?
Because you can't use it to look at porn.
