@blogdiva @TeflonTrout Compuserve was too expensive -- my dad cancelled it and got GEnie instead. Which still had some cool stuff, e.g. JMS posting about Babylon 5 ... but by that time I was already hooked on Usenet.

(Many of JMS' posts from the early 90s are archived at https://jmsnews.com/messages/archive).

@blogdiva mists of time... I got hooked on BBSes when I met (age 14?) a sysop from the Dorsai Embassy, and volunteered to manage the Mac software uploads. That was in the mid-80s, and they were a special group of nerds -- some of the first people to offer AIDS information online (at least on the east coast), along with hosting files and forums for many other groups. And they ran a weekly soup kitchen (well, chicken & potatoes) out of Jack's loft in Soho, until it burned and the servers moved to an anodyne basement in LIC.

Then in college ca 1990, I got hooked on bitnet relay, usenet, SunOs 4, gopher, and the rest is more recent history...

@FknHannu @roger @blogdiva now I'm all nostalgic about #initgame