sf wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:46:19 -0400, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>> Nope, Prodigy allowed ng access and AOL, too, starting back in the 1980's.
>> GoogleGroups is relatively new in the grand scheme of things.
>
> They weren't certainly were not free - they charged by the hour. I
> remember a huge (in the hundreds bill) one month when I was on Prodigy
> (which made me look around and find Pipeline) - AOHell didn't unleash
> their hoards to the world until the internet was well developed. They
> had, and still have, private groups for their members.
>
>

aol had Usenet as far back as 1995 when I started with them.

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