Craigslist was, of course, not the first such "bathhouse of the internet," as Salon so dubbed AOL in 1999. PlanetOut co-founder Tom Rielly told Salon then that "people thought a third of all their rooms were gay." And at the time, AOL had some 16,000 chat rooms - one reason so many users nicknamed it "GayOL." Before online chat and gay-specific social networks (such as Gay.com and Manhunt.net), in the 1980s there were Usenet newsgroups (the earliest known example was called " soc.motss ," short for "members of the same sex").