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Easy - definitely Quakenet IRC back in the heyday of Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. A feeling of community and comedy that nothing online has come close to for me since.

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My answer is also the quake community, from the Q1 era, for the same reasons.

Mainly a bunch of really smart, bored, and funny college kids.

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