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

Dip 443 was being played when Halisp was closed down; in fact it was the list traffic caused by 443 which brought
about the shutdown. :-)

I think it was Autumn 1999.

Regards
Peter


----- Original Message -----
From: "David E Watson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: [CAT23-Gchat] 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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