Ask HN: How Long have you been actively engaging with strangers on the internet?

What platforms have you progressed through?

For example, I started 20 years ago with GameFAQs and AIM. Had a bit of a gap in text-based mediums between AIM and joining Reddit in 2010. Still engaged vocally in private servers in video games like Counter-Strike during that time. Sometimes that leaked into Ventrilo. Actually made some legitimate online friends that i engaged with for at least a few years with that. The popularity of ranked matchmaking eventually killed casual conversation in that medium for me, though. Stayed on Reddit for a long time, still follow some specific subs. Started on HN about maybe a year ago

Tried discord here and there but it doesnt seem to stick to me

I was on MySpace & Facebook early but didnt really engage with strangers there, just IRL friends and such.