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Slashdot and Segfault.
At the time, all my online friends used it to discuss techie things.
First social network with real people in my local area? Whirlpool.net.au
It started as a site for peer support for one ISP but became a forum for local and regional technological issues.
There were also other niche forums for niche interests, including a Nissan Pulsar forum; we would organise cruises IRL and share technical information.
Most of these communities have been subsumed by Meta, which I believe is a terrible thing. Their platforms are not as conducive for that sort of socialising, without significant amounts of friction.
These names l'm hearing from you..... Thanks for sharing 😃😃😃
I will admit that segfault was not a great community. It was a humour site, a parody of Slashdot similar to The Onion.
One of the features of Segfault was a poll. Due to how it was coded, it was trivial to add custom answers to any poll. Due to the nature of the Internet (with a capital I) at the time, quite a few ‘netizens’ were very deviant. Any time a new poll was created, one of the options would be “Natalie Portman Topless”.
I am pretty sure all the people responsible for this have either grown up and learnt the errors of their ways of gone to 4chan.
I remember that phrase now, Natalie Portman Topless😆😆😆😆😆