The WELL was available in 1985. One of the motivations for designing the original Apple I was connecting to mainframe based bulletin boards, in the 70s. CompuSe

The WELL was available in 1985. One of the motivations for designing the original Apple I was connecting to mainframe based bulletin boards, in the 70s. CompuServe started selling dial up access to their service in 79. GEnie was available in 85. Delphi was available in 1981. Quantum Link was available in 85 and became AOL in 88.