We did not all get along. I remember some incredible flamewars on echomail, certainly, and also on usenet.

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

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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		idk, I remember significant predatory behavior on IRC and pretty bad stuff floating around in alt binaries on usenet.