[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Jorge Amodio]

Yup alt.sex was a very techie channel back then LOL

-J

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 6:42 PM Bob Purvy <bpurvy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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