I could be wrong, but I think it started from members of the alt.tv.simpsons newsgroup. They would often write things like "Worst. Episode. Ever." The Simpsons made fun of this by having Comic Book Guy talk like that (he even said "worst. episode. ever." in one episode.) So they interpreted the punctuation with a stilted talk that regular internet uses reinterpreted as the original punctuation, and started talking like that. It's become part of the lexicon in the same way "d'oh" has.
Of course it's possible that it existed before all this!
I don't know if it was my most recent post that prompted this, but I just wrote it that way because I figured that was the best way to express how I would verbally say that particular statement, using punctuation! I'm guessing that's why others would do it too?
Ditto. I can remember visualizing spoken sentences as having periods after every word as a little kid; I think the advent of seeing it in real life is probably borne of the internet, but the concept is old.
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