CompuServe was pretty awesome back in the 80's! It was essentially email and Reddit, all in one service. You had scripts that would run to send/receive mail, do

CompuServe was pretty awesome back in the 80's! It was essentially email and Reddit, all in one service. You had scripts that would run to send/receive mail, download thread updates and upload responses - all batch, because you were charged by the minute for connect time. There are some aspects of that environment I like better than what we have today.