I recall chatrooms that were bulletin boards that you had to manuall refresh to see new messages. I remember webrings, webcrawler and how all chat services had

I recall chatrooms that were bulletin boards that you had to manuall refresh to see new messages. I remember webrings, webcrawler and how all chat services had a 'random' option.. so you could chat to people you'd never met. Typically you'd open with "hi a/s/l?" Hi, Emma. I met many long term long distance friends on early bulletin boards. My favourite of which was the unmod board at ocremix. Thanks djpretzel!