Compuserve...what memories.. I remember lurking there as well.

How many remember when the superhighway was only a dirt road called ARPANET and BBN, and an e-mail took hours or days to be delivered, not seconds or minutes. A smiley face would be a feat in ascii only. Green screens and text only....those were the days NOT!

Anyway, lets not digress. Every extra 8bits wasted was important back then.