"It used to be that all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting..." What kind of hell-forums were you using in the late 90s?! I never saw anything like that

"It used to be that all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting..." What kind of hell-forums were you using in the late 90s?! I never saw anything like that going on in the forums I was using back in my early days of internetting, though to be fair, I was mostly on classical music, historical fiction, and parrot-keeping forums, which tend to attract people outside the bored young male demographic, but I was also a regular Slashdot reader, where things sometimes got nasty, but I don't remember a swatting incident, or much in the way of doxxing.