Before then we had IRC where people can do literally everything.
Once Discord stepped in (and Chatzilla "coincidentally" shut down after 2016) it's GG.
Welcome to the New UN Internet folks! No more "Rules of the Internet" the only rule is "You have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, and you will be happy".
Now if you post drawn child porn it is going to be treated as seriously as statutory rape and if people disagree with you they just kill you.
Haha, coincidences!
Uh, IRC is still around. Discord is entirely optional and will never be "a full-blown universal control system"
The secret rooms at internet backbones across the globe do that.
IRC is as good as abandoned for most of the time.
No U
Apparently the piracy scene is still alive and thriving on there, so im betting a few others are too.
Problem is its not secure, at all lol.
I stopped talking to people around the time ventrillo stopped being a thing.