Tim wrote:

AOL and CompuServe were dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age. A friend of mine was using AOL, against my advice, and finally dropped them in favor of Earthlink, around 1996. As of that time, they were still making promises on when their customers would be given real access to the Web.

Yup. AOL and CompuServe came way late into the IP game. IIRC, well after TIA.

By the way, on a historical note, I was a Netcom customer when Netcom began offering their own proprietary Web browser solution. I don't even recall what they called it. It only ran under Windows, so we Mac users had to look elsewhere for our ISPs.

Net Cruiser. It was a logical step to take for Netcom, given the state of IP client software for Windows at the time, but made obsolete pretty much the moment it was released by TIA. --Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06