It started as a business software play called "On-line Systems". It seems doubtful that Ken Williams was considering actual networked software on Apple II at th

It started as a business software play called "On-line Systems". It seems doubtful that Ken Williams was considering actual networked software on Apple II at the time (though the machine could do it) but probably it sounded advanced and cool. In 1979 "on-line" would have been recognizably computery, but not mean much else to most people, who would never have seen a computer network. Says Jimmy Maher, who should know, On-Line Systems was "a name fairly typical of the vaguely futuristic, vaguely compound, but essentially meaningless names (Microsoft, anyone?) that were so common in the era." https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/ https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/