I was active on web forums related to my interests, and IRC channels generally stemming off of those. My internet browsing was much more contained to the netwo

I was active on web forums related to my interests, and IRC channels generally stemming off of those. My internet browsing was much more contained to the network of sites that I was already aware of. This was in 2006/2007 when I first started using the internet. The aggregators definitely existed back then, but I wasn't aware of them.