Greetings, all.
AOL, which introduced a Usenet gateway service in 1994, seems to get the
most flak for instigating the Eternal September. But at that time (and
in the previous 15 years or so) there were a lot of other commercial
online services, such as CompuServe, GEnie, Delphi, The Source, and
PlayNET. Surely at least some of these must have had Usenet gateways
that predated AOL's? Was AOL really the first such service, or only the first one that pumped enough clueless newbies into Usenet to make
existing users sit up and take notice?
Regards,
Tristan
Greetings, all.
Surely at least some of these must have had Usenet gateways
that predated AOL's?
Was AOL really the first such service, or only the
first one that pumped enough clueless newbies into Usenet to make
existing users sit up and take notice?
A few days ago I research an article from the early AOL era for Ronda
Hauben and I ended up reading several threads in news.admin.policy while looking for those articles for her.
Surely at least some of these must have had Usenet gateways
that predated AOL's?
Yes, there was a similar, but lesser outcry about CompuServe, GEnie, and Delphi
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