I remember my father rambling in the mid 90s about how amazing chat rooms were because he could talk with people all over the country or even overseas, although that's into the commercial dial up internet era and after the dialing up a specific server era.
Packet radio and dial-up BBSes were around before the commercial internet as well.
Dial-up BBS must have been wild. My mind would have been blown by it, you mean I can shitpost with these people not in the same room?!
I remember my father rambling in the mid 90s about how amazing chat rooms were because he could talk with people all over the country or even overseas, although that's into the commercial dial up internet era and after the dialing up a specific server era.
I was big into chat rooms on aol. We didn't get internet until I believe 99, so way past the heydays of BBS.