re: #329 Anymouse 🌹

Actually, no. Before the explosion of the World Wide Web, chatrooms, blogs, &c actually had a much smaller reach. Internet service was widely unavailable, computers with any significant power were exceptionally expensive (therefore E-mail blasts were also rather uncommon).

Outside of Commodore’s Quantum Link (which became AOL), CompuServe had the largest marketshare, running on PDP-8s, 10s, and 11s. At it’s peak, it had 380,000 subscribers in the USA.

I was an early CompuServe subscriber back in the 1980s. Since I was using a C-64 also, I may have a QLink sub, too. I remember how novel it all seemed, getting messages from far away instantaneously (almost, given connection speeds back then).