Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31532017-20161112104144/@comment-5643552-20170102053441

Derpyspaghetti wrote:

But that doesn't mean that it technically was a creepypasta. What about all the other horror copypastas that came before them? are we not going to include those? And Ted the Caver was an urban legend, sure, but it began circulating the internet the same way any creepypasta does. Where do we draw the line? If you want to get technical, you could trace the very first creepypastas back to whenever people started sharing creepy stories on the internet (around the early '90s I'd imagine). I like to think of any creepy story before 2007-ish as "pre-creepypasta." Ted the Caver (like you mentioned) and The Dionaea House are good examples of this.