The astonishing thing is that this could make Newsweek if there were only 15k simultaneous users. But I guess a lot of people had tried getting online as a cur

The astonishing thing is that this could make Newsweek if there were only 15k simultaneous users. But I guess a lot of people had tried getting online as a curiosity, but there wasn't a huge concurrent load. At the time I had a university account and was safely ensconced in my free shell account irc'ing and mud'ing all night.