WWW. "I got the numbers I told you about. Many of the big Usenet groups from this July were for porn (of course) but there were other popular bulletin boards too. The TV-related ones were (not very surprisingly) alt.tv.simpsons and two for Star Trek: rec.arts.startrek.info and rec.arts.startrek.current. Oh—your favorite alt.2600 was behind The Simpsons but ahead of Star Trek!"—Excerpt from email sent from Prodigy user REKCAH to AOL user AL1962, dated October 2, 1995 (printout found in used file cabinet sold in Pasadena, California, in 1998)


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