For video, it was really a bit later into the early and mid 00s. Answering this is hard, though. The best way to think about it is think of all those super ran

For video, it was really a bit later into the early and mid 00s. Answering this is hard, though. The best way to think about it is think of all those super random, niche subreddits. I'm sure all of those had cool, interesting web sites made by people really into that thing. So really they existed for everything. Find someone who was online a bunch during this time people and ask them if them were members of any interesting online forums.