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See also online access being very expensive. Compuserve, charging $11 per hour ($25 per hour in 2021 dollars), had "more than 250,000 subscribers". The Source
by DanBC 5y ago
See also online access being very expensive.
Compuserve, charging $11 per hour ($25 per hour in 2021 dollars), had "more than 250,000 subscribers".
The Source, charging $8 per hour, was popular for its conferencing system "parti".
Delphi, charging $6 per hour had a loyal but small (less than 10,000 users) following.
BIX, $9 per hour, grew from a magazine. Notable quote: "This is the computer industry as it used to be: people sharing ideas and solutions without the greed and grit with associated with today's corporate driven, litigation-laced, industry"
From the Whole Earth Catalogue "Signal - Communication tools for the Information Age" (http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1300 http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1...)
- ghaff 5y agoAnd don't forget the telephone charges. Even if you weren't dialing a different area code, calling further than your local exchange or set of exchanges could be >$1/minute. (Indeed, intrastate calls could cost more than interstate calls.) So there were a bunch of apps for both commercial services and BBS systems to let you get on, download messages, and get offline as quickly as possible. You then could read/reply to messages offline and log back on just to upload them.
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