For someone to come and read or participate, they had to be a Prodigy member. Open to all is a much better idea. I was the paid moderator on Prodigy, using an assumed name so the companies I worked for wouldn't know I was online, instead of out in the field making calls. 😇 I also was overall, External for Antiques and collectibles, the Home and Gardening special interest group, monitored chat and watched another group BB.

Greg had the right idea and brought people together and enabled anyone who wanted to come be part of the group.

The end of Prodigy, Compuserve and AOL, as paid platforms, came along with the end of dial-up and open Internet that was DSL or wired, instead of phone modems. I for one don't miss the "good old days" of having a second phone line, just for the computer and another for the FAX. Plus the phone companies, until Sprint caused a change, decided a "business" line was different and more expensive than a home line and stuck it to us. I was always wondering how a line that got six calls a day, about a minute long was more drain on the system, than someone teenager, sitting on the phone for hours chatting?

Well that's also the past, now kids have better phone, that are better than my early computers, and they carry them in their pocket?

But the point is, the club started and had an online presence, then evolved and improved and was accessible to more and more people. A good reason to thank Greg for the effort and inspiration to make things better for all of us... for free!

I still think the Chip Guide is amazing as well!