Prior to the forming of the Chipboard collectors gathered at Prodigy AOL, and afterwards Travis Lewin began his ListServe where we all gathered each evening exchanging messages added onto the service. Greg would post at least once, twice and three times per night with a message reading "I just added three more chips to ChipGuide" and we would all jump over there to check it out... Then, one night, I got an email from "Top" to check out a URL and boom... it was the board.