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| Posted by: finally 09:17 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Q: for Ann - Ann 10:49 am EDT 05/22/23 | |
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| Thanks for the answer. I do remember the days when many sites did not require logins. I was an early internet denizen in the mid-90s but did IRC mainly, and those were local channels I was using (we had regular in-person meetups). It was a different world because you had to have some technical knowledge to do it. AOL really started opening it up to the casual user. Never was into usenet groups that I recall. My first email address was through a university, so I lost a bit of that early history once I no longer had access to that account. I'm sure a lot of it was done through AOL mail at a certain point as well. | |
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| re: Q: for Ann | |
| Posted by: Ann 09:30 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Q: for Ann - finally 09:17 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
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| I had to dial long distance to get AOL or Compuserve, so I used Prodigy. They all had discussion groups of various types, but since you had a user login, you couldn't spoof that. | |
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| re: Q: for Ann | |
| Posted by: finally 09:40 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Q: for Ann - Ann 09:30 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
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| Yes, one of my friends who lived in a rural area was the first to show me AOL. He would run up phone bills in the hundreds of dollars every month. And then of course he would lose the connection any time someone picked up a phone extension to make a call. I didn't do AOL forums much so not sure what sort of theater boards there were. I know a cruise ship forum that still exists started as an AOL chat room, so I'm sure there are other sites that owe their birth to AOL and competitors. | |
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