The old Usenet had social groups and discussion groups for almost every interest you could think of. New groups were created multiple times per week, and when t

The old Usenet had social groups and discussion groups for almost every interest you could think of. New groups were created multiple times per week, and when the backbone maintainers tried to rein that in, the alt hierarchy was created and vastly more groups were created. But most of the non-tech groups were not archived so that discussion is gone. Arguably fortunately: we were young and stupid and posted embarrassing stuff using our real names and affiliations.