many people who have joined have related their extended stints on communities Reddit, Dig, Slashdot, or even older places like Usenet, and i’m super interested in what your best memories and favorite experiences on places like that have been in your time using them
Early 90s (like 92-94, just after the first undernet forking and while EFnet was still in one piece) IRC and getting to know like-minded people enough to talk to them offline as well and even meet them IRL.