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Most people I communicated with at the time were also minors, maybe a few young adults, and it happened almost entirely in public forums, not private conversations.
That's different than what i did as a kid. I was talking to people on AOL messenger and chat rooms all the time. Didn't occur to me until much later that theses 40 year olds were trying to groom me.
Didn't work, but, it happened nonetheless.
I remember once meeting someone (a woman) on IRC who was over 40 or even 50, I don't remember the exact age. I remember just being surprised that someone that age would be on the same part of the Internet I was hanging out on. But I don't think that person was there for any bad purposes.