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rkomorntoday at 8:52 PM0 repliesview on HN

I don't know how far "back then" is but I got on the internet in the 90s and people on freenode and other IRC networks making racist/sexist comments was definitely not a rarity.

Edit: or actually, whatever predated freenode (OPN?) because I forgot freenode was a 2000s change.