[JKCalhoun]

And yet those look so quaint (in scope, certainly) nowadays.

[toyg]

yeah, the worst that could happen was some IRC shenanigans and getting a bunch of unexpected pizza deliveries. SWATing and doxxing were very rare, and nobody would try to get you fired or ostracized for saying the wrong thing.

[chasd00]

idk, I remember significant predatory behavior on IRC and pretty bad stuff floating around in alt binaries on usenet.