76275,332. And what was YOUR CompuServe ID?

[JoeEkaitis]

WARNING: answering will reveal to the world that you're at, near or past the half-century mark in age.

 

[cbenoi1]

I went from FidoNet to Bitnet and skipped compu$erver / aol completely.

-cb

ETA: That's not true. We had a compu$erver account at work for Win2.x SDK / DDK support. Our Microsoft customer number was 000000017. That was when M$oft cared about its developers.

 

[Al Stevens]

71101,1262
Remember TAPCIS?

 

[benbradley]

I remember this tanstaafl guy:
http://www.google.com/search?q="tegames"+"georgia+tech"
And he's wrong, it was psgames, not tegames.

Fidonet was much later.

 

[thothguard51]

Don't remember my compuserve number, but I remember the old monitored AOL writing groups. What a diaster...

 

[Nymtoc]

I tried to get out of a Compuserve session by simply clicking the X in the upper-right corner. Compuserve then came after me for not correctly signing out (some process I've forgotten now), claiming that I owed them a gazillion dollars for staying on Compuserve for several days. They threatened to send a collection agency after me.

I laughed , and never had anything else to do with them.

 

[leahzero]

Don't remember mine, but I used CS back in the day and I'm not quite 30.

 

[Amadan]

Mine was 73312, something....

I remember when CS went flat-rate, and the invasion of n00bs, teenagers, and AOLers was the cause of much grousing.

Now real old-timers will remember GEnie...

 

[amichan]

Well, I'm that age, but I was never on CompuServe. I started out on WebTV, where I learned a lot about web site design. Because we had no software, we had to learn how to make our own online word processors, using raw code. Fun times!

 

[WeaselFire]

How about Dow Jones?

I've been on them all at one point or another since 1977. Managed to connect a Bally Arcade running Bally Basic to Arpanet with a 110 BPS modem. Could have been a model for Wargames, except I know how to swim.

Had a cool chat with Orson Scott Card in the 1980's on CompuServe. We discussed programming the Commodore 64. Never thought to discuss writing.

Jeff

 

[benbradley]

I'm reminded of this nugget, though the people who most need(ed) to read it never heard of such an argument:
http://www.panix.com/~tbetz/boulder.shtml

 

[FOTSGreg]

I can't recall mine either, but I do recall trolling some of the old UseNet BBS's, and I was a member of a couple of egroups sites before they became/were absorbed by yahoo.

 

[mario_c]

I tried to get out of a Compuserve session by simply clicking the X in the upper-right corner. Compuserve then came after me for not correctly signing out (some process I've forgotten now), claiming that I owed them a gazillion dollars for staying on Compuserve for several days. They threatened to send a collection agency after me.

I laughed , and never had anything else to do with them.

That was probably not Compuserve. That was and probably is a huge dialup scam, still perpetrated by redirect scripts.

Had a Compuserve account, no clue what it is. I hope no one steals it.

 

[WeaselFire]

Finally found it, I was 71477,134. I had to Google myself and eventually found a level (WAD) I posted for the original DOOM. (It's still out there)

By the way, I ran Fidonet node 1:371/26. Carried the Fidonet writing echo.

Before it all, I was a member of the WELL. If you remember that, which is actually still running, you're older than the internet too.

Anyone need a copy of the Wildcat BBS system?

Jeff

 

[RickN]

Mine was 73312, something....

I remember when CS went flat-rate, and the invasion of n00bs, teenagers, and AOLers was the cause of much grousing.

Now real old-timers will remember GEnie...

I joined Genie when I bought an Atari ST in 1986. Dialed in on my 2400/9600 baud modems and played a lot of AirWarrior and Battletech, hung out in several Roundtables.

Then I moved to Compuserve.

I feel old.

 

[Torgo]

Would be nice if I could remember. Though it's my old Demon Internet address that I wish I still had.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I'm that age but I never used compuserve or aol. I used dialup (EarthLink?) and Netscape.