RCN bought Erols ISP. Erols addresses are still around, though. My family bought their first VCRs from them, including a top-loader. One of my first VCR memories is some obscure movie (wish I could remember which) getting totally mangled about 20 minutes in.
- david On 12/12/05, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that Erols was a computer store that sort of stumbled into > the ISP market. One question, was it UUNET that bought out the ISP > side or RCN/Starpower? > > larry > > On 12/12/05, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UUNet may have bought Erols, but I think they preceded Erols by more > > than a decade. I was getting a usenet feed through uunet in the late > > 80s, I think) > > > > Both compuserve and prodigy had those dumb addresses - for internet mail. > > > > Only compuserve used that horrible string for internal addressing as well. > > > > Prodigy used simple names (jjohnson for me) for all inside-prodigy > > email and boards. (IIRC) > > > > On 12/12/05, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wait, was i mistaken, was it compuserve and not prodigy > > > that had those dumb addresses? or was it really both? > > > > > > heck, all i knew was erol's back then :) anyone remember > > > them? and didnt they eventually become uunet? and does > > > anyone remember UUDecoding porn out of email? and then > > > UUEncoding it back into an email and sending it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:187491 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
