Remember when people on the internet werent pushed towards using real names? Gender bias didn't exist because only people you told knew your gender. Such gay times they were!
Yes, I do remember that (having been using the internet several years before there was any such thing as a web browser), and I dispute your claim, albeit on the purely anecdotal basis of spending years on Usenet.
"When men were men, women were men and 12 year old girls were FBI agents"