Yes, the Internet used to be a nice place.

Well, that's my perspective from joining CompuServe in the late 80's and enjoying it till the mid-90's. It was a great community, we had a lot of fun sharing and discussing the news, trying out new software and occasionally :) roasting Microsoft.

I can't complain -- I got my first non-student Internet E-Mail address from them. For a while I was 73067.1500@compuserve.com, before we entered the ISP of the month period of Modern History.

Unfortunately CompuServe's business model started to fail in the second half of the 90's -- charging connect time by the minute (especially at the rate they were charging) made less and less sense. Then, of course, they were bought by AOL.

Fun memories. :)

--t. alex
but my friends call me T.

In reply to (OT) The Internet used to be fun by talexb
in thread Getting Email environment address by Anonymous Monk

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