A kiss is no longer a kiss, and a sigh is no longer a sigh. There are TinyMUDs and TinyMOOs and probably a TinyMUSH out there somewhere as well. And somehow, the Tiny worlds became associated with text-only contextual sex. Meet in a dark corner of the keyboard, type sweet nothings into her terminal and before you know it the hot and heavy is pouring from your fingertips onto your screen. Sex isn't the only thing you can have in a text-only environment.
Some people still like a little foreplay.
Text-only discussions have their own rules which the net has built up to keep discussions from getting too confusing. You're new here. A person named Clayton Cramer is responding to a message from Rajappa Iyer , who was, in turn, responding to a previous message from Clayton. Some articles will include messages from three, four, five, and more previous posts, and quotes from those messages will be preceded by three, four, five, or more arrows. In general, this makes it pretty easy to see who said what, although some people will accidentally or deliberately mess up the 'attribution' of who said what.