[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Bob Purvy]

I should have mentioned that Usenet and mailing lists were kinda techie
back then. I'm thinking my guy would have started with CompuServe, Prodigy,
AOL... something less intimidating for a noobie guy.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 4:30 PM Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Usenet news was extremely active during those days, you may find some
> archives.
>
> IRC was very popular and cucme, I met my wife on IRC during 1995 ;-), we
> had some interesting opers wars to take control of channels.
>
> Cheers
> -Jorge
>
> > On Aug 31, 2022, at 5:53 PM, Bob Purvy via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Something you wouldn't think would be a problem:
> >
> > I'm planning out my next novel, and I want to have a character haunting
> the
> > chat rooms and forums on investing, around 1995 and on. I don't want to
> > quote anything or dox anyone -- I just want to get the tone and format
> back
> > then, as well as the topics they were talking about.
> >
> > The Wayback Machine seems to have started at the end of 1996. Does anyone
> > have links to earlier archives?
> > --
> > Internet-history mailing list
> > Internet-history at elists.isoc.org
> > https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history
>