[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Jack Haverty]

IIRC, I had a Compuserve account, although I can't remember exactly 
when.  But I think I remember that Compuserve's charges were based on 
hours of connect time.   So there was financial pressure on Users to 
dial up, do what you wanted to do, and hang up as quickly as possible.   
That's very different from today's always-connected world.   I thought 
that might matter for your novel.  Good writing!
Jack


On 8/31/22 16:42, Bob Purvy via Internet-history 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?
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