What Is This Thing Called Cyberchat? Brian Hackney explains (in 1995) 

Gather 'round, children, and discover the nascent years of the Internet, when AOL was hot, and when chat rooms were all the rage. This phenomena was explained to our KGO viewers, including the observation that these virtual relations were, in a word, sick. All very quaint in retrospect. Which is exactly how 2019 will look in no time at all.