[ih] Chat room and forum archives

[Paul Ferguson]

On 8/31/22 6:22 PM, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:

> It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
>> 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.
> 
> Yup. There were programs for your PC that would connect, upload
> whatever you had written, download all the messages in groups of
> interest, and then hang up, so you could peruse them and reply
> offline.
> 
> AOL was like that until they switched to unmetered service.
> 

FWIW, this topic/thread made me seek-and-find some old cypherpunk 
archive threads I had contributed to from an old FIDOnet gateway 
account. FIDO was really big in the amateur BBS community prior to the 
early 90's and the commercial availability of 'the Internet'. :-)

Cheers,

- ferg


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Paul Ferguson
Tacoma, WA  USA
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