> To be fair, there was a good decade and a half, maybe two, where Usenet was the place to have deep, meaningful and respectful conversations. Most netiquette c

> To be fair, there was a good decade and a half, maybe two, where Usenet was the place to have deep, meaningful and respectful conversations. Most netiquette conventions were first established there. There were BBS-era networks that also had meaningful conversations. The Well (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, ‘85), Citadel networks (‘81), Fidonet (‘83), and many others.