QUOTE(Text @ Wed 8th September 2010, 7:36pm)
Adding coal to the bonfire: there should be more people here telling their stories about Usenet, Compuserve and similar services which were in use between 1985 and 2000. Few people here, and around the planet in general, can share their experiences about those systems.
I was a subscriber to Prodigy in 1992, I believe was the year. Compuserve, also, for a shorter time. Then I got addicted to AOL. Ran up a couple of $100+ monthly bills on that service. Volunteering for the Homework Help forum was a boon -- you got two minutes of free AOL time for every minute you documented as working for Homework Help.