Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    CHAT    |    General havoc    |    1,840 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 67 of 1,840    |
|    August Abolins to Charles Pierson    |
|    Online Communities    |
|    07 Nov 20 20:18:33    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5fa6e4f6       REPLY: 2:221/6.21 b4ce018b       PID: Pineapple/OS2 1.3 20201107       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0200       On 06/11/2020 10:28 p.m., Charles Pierson : August Abolins wrote:               CP> I did see it as being something shiny and new, so        CP> obviously people were going to look around. But I also        CP> expected them to eventually come back around the echos.        CP> Perhaps not as often as before, but consistently.               CP> Obviously I was wrong.                     This article seems to analyse the trend and reasoning from BBS to       internet use too:              https://www.zdnet.com/article/before-the-web-online-services/                     --        __/|ug              --- TB(Stealth)/Win7        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 129/305 153/757 221/0 6 360 229/426 664 700 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 301/1 322/757 335/364 460/58 4500/1       PATH: 221/360 6 153/757 229/664 426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca