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In reply to the discussion: I have been on DU for almost nine years now. [View all]MineralMan
(146,350 posts)DU, actually. I was on GEnie, too, but not so much. I also ran a BBS system out of my house to support my little software company, and it was always busy. I had a small discussion forum on that, as well. Those old days were different, but the concept of an online discussion forum was the same. There was one person I know of on the CIS Politics forum who showed up on DU for awhile, with the same screen name he used there, and the same topic of circumcision he was always on about there.
At the time, as you said, it was MS-DOS and Compuserve was a totally text interface. No mouse, no nothing. Times have changed, but people haven't, it seems.
I still remember my old Compuserve User ID: 71571,222 I put my first website on Compuserve's MyWorld system back in 1991, I think. It was also the first service to offer internet access at about the same time. Sadly, it didn't survive, and I dropped it in 1995, although I was never able to take down my websites there when I switched to normal hosting. It was almost impossible.