That sounds vaguely familiar. I'm sure I recall some people I knew at college in the late 1980s were involved in an online version of that (I suspect that was a large part of why the "good terminals" were rarely available) but I was preoccupied with trying to get myself expelled by creative misuse of the internet. "I've just discovered this awesome new thing! So I'll make good use of it by sending people reams of rude poetry and invoke the wrath of their sysadmin by causing their email system to crash in a fit of pearl-clutching!" etc.
Some example I'm setting. I should probably change my title to "ageing reprobate".
