Pseudonymous forums and such were actually hella lame. The way most people heard of them was through some kind of magazine, they were usually a cliqueish circlejerk of people with similar subcultural/retardcultural affinities. Which were heavily moderated by the host himself and gatekept to keep a bunch of losers in an autistic bubble. It is why anonymous communication became such a big and influential thing. Usenet which actually goes back to the 80s could be pretty cool though.0