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

Like when Egroups took over Onelist, this date really didn't have any
functional significance for Cat23.  When Cat23 left Halisp, that was a much
bigger deal.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter J Richardson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Re: How many original GEnie people are left?


> 2000.
>
>
> ----- 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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