Re: How many original GEnie people are left?

Yeah, they're all pretty much guesstimations. I'm not necessarily 
interested in real time as I am in what game numbers were being 
played at the time...
that has greater meaning in this forum anyway.
Dave

--- In [email protected], "David E. Cohen" <zendip18@o...> 
wrote:
> 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" <pjrich@n...>
> 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" <dipknight@c...>
> > 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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