Re: Re: How many original GEnie people are left?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E Watson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are left?


> 'Bout the only time period I don't have an adequate guesstimation 
> for is when Yahoo took over the eGroups lists.
> Anyone?
> 
> --- In [email protected], "mczet" <mczet@c...> wrote:
> > Thats probably about right. I recall that GEnie was going belly up 
> due to
> > the explosion of the WWW, along with General Electrics not wishing 
> to put
> > money into upgrading the system. Web mentioned that listservers 
> were the way
> > to go, and since this was pre free Yahoo days, we had to use 
> contacts. I
> > forgot who got the folks at Halisp to host us for free, which was 
> a real
> > lifesaver at the time as listservers were at least $100 a year at 
> that time.
> > 
> > Then the masses all came flooding into the Web, and I think thats 
> when AOL
> > was having problems so we had a real explosion.
> > 
> 
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