Sweet Lord of Mercy! My wife used to frequent those idiot boards shortly after we broke down, bought our first computer, and foolishly signed on with AOL.
Shortly thereafter, I was regaled with stories of brutal cat-fights and introduced to the acronym "TOS". Ah, the memories.
Was she a DISI board poster? I posted there about 6-7 years ago. The posters used to keep track of how long others were online from the times on their posts, and then accuse them of neglecting their children. It was unreal.
But I do have the distinction of being one of the original group who left and colonised on the ACLU boards so we could tell them exactly how screwed up they were.