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On 02/02/15 08:59, Brad Rogers wrote:
I used it at work to start with but at home AOL was my first ISP and ISTR it was hard work accessing the internet rather than their shit. But when MS arrived on the scene it was immediately apparent that they were not there to play the game - which is lucky for us as if they'd tried stealth instead of bullying they might just have made it.On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:33:13 +0000 Kevin Peat <lug@xxxxxx> wrote: Hello Kevin,Not so sure. Our kids wanted to get online originally for MS Messenger and I don't suppose they were the only ones.Quite probably, but Gordon's right; Microsoft were late to the party. I recall that they ran their own nntp servers for quite some time. Compuserve, AOL et al were all OSPs before the internet became available to the general public. In fact, even AOL offered initially internet access merely as an adjunct to their core business.
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