[CondensedBrain]

>> "I've also enjoyed the organic explosion of low carb cooking that has happened online. I have been witness to the community growing from its very beginnings less than a decade ago when it was just some people trying to make weight loss taste good"

This is way older than a decade. I knew people getting into it and sharing recipes on Usenet. The current boom is new, but online low carb communities are ancient in internet terms.

It wasn't very palatable back then, but people sure did try.

[guelo]

The original low carb fad was Dr Atkin's diet in the late 90s.

[DrScump]

Atkins goes back to the 1980s, and keto diets well preceded him.

There was already an active Usenet community for lowcarb diets in the late 1990s (alt.support.diet.low-carb).