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That was pre-internet, simaru. Compuserve, Prodigy, GEnie and others provides access to proprietary services through proprietary interfaces -- primarily via dialup. I never used Compuserve, but I used to reset GEnie modems in Lynn, Massachusetts at the beginning and end of my workday and drew a check from Prodigy as a Special Contributor when they transitioned from proprietary service to internet service provider.
More magic. We were all so lucky to have been there before everything got figured out...
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