There's definitely a sense of 'everything that happened in the computer age before AO3' element to that category, yes.
I was a late adopter of LJ from mailing lists and then ignored the account here for a long time. I had my AO3 account set up for me rather than getting an invite -- a gift, maybe? -- but I definitely start at Usenet. Heck, I found Usenet on *Gopher*....
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Date: 2018-12-31 15:37 (UTC)I was a late adopter of LJ from mailing lists and then ignored the account here for a long time. I had my AO3 account set up for me rather than getting an invite -- a gift, maybe? -- but I definitely start at Usenet. Heck, I found Usenet on *Gopher*....