Fwd: [GLLUG] Free Juno/NetZero Accounts

[Brent Barker]

I remember dialing in to BBSs in 1993 or so, on a Packard Bell 286.
Still have that sucker. It's the only computer I've had that never
crashed. Oh, MS-DOS Shell and WordPerfect with that blue background...

Oh, the memories...

--Brent

On 9/27/07, Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Cathey wrote:
>
> > Chick Tower wrote (edited):
>
> >> Subject: [GLLUG] Free Juno/NetZero Accounts
>
> >> My current dial-up ISP, VTISP, has no phone support and offers tech
> >> support only via e-mail.  Therefore, I wanted a secondary ISP that I
> >> could use to contact VTISP in the case of not being able to use VTISP.
> >> I had seen ads claiming that Juno and NetZero (essentially the same
> >> company, but different brands) offered ten free hours a month, so I
> >> visited Juno's website.
>
> > WOW - Juno.  I remember that from when I was a pre-teen.  That and Prodigy and
> > what was the other one - Compusomething or . . . Well it started with a C.
> > I was busy using KA9Q to figure out how to get into MSU's internet via dialup
> > (and use gopher!) and my dad signed us up for Prodigy or Juno - I know we
> > used them both but don't remember the order.
>
> Pre-Internet-for-all (1983-88), there were several nation-wide
> "information services"-- the best-known was Compuserve-- but there was
> also Genie (GE), Prodigy (IBM and Sears), and QuantumLink (now AOL).
> QuantumLink was interesting, because they started out as a Commodore
> 64-only service-- it wasn't until later that they added IBM
> PC-compatible support (then changed their name).  Juno came MUCH
> later, circa 1996.
>
> Of course there were MANY local BBSs, including about 20 local to me
> in the Detroit area in the late '80s and early '90s.  Many supported
> the FIDONet mail service-- later, there was a FIDO-to-Internet bridge
> that could pass messages both ways.  This was long before the World
> Wide Web, but Gopher and Archie were just becoming active.
>
> I'm not sure what happened to Genie, but Compuserve lingers on as part
> of AOL and remnants of Prodigy still exist within the AT&T network.
> My first contact with emoticons was on a QuantumLink chat at the Atari
> ST rollout at the summer CES in June 1985; that was where I also saw
> my first CD-ROM and drive.
>
> -- Mikey
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