Re:Dumb Question (Score 2)

I worked for IO from 1995-1997, I started right after they moved out of the SJ offices to their own space on South IH 35 in Austin.

(I might have some of the facts wrong here, but this is the gist of it, as I remember things)
Steve was a part owner of io.com, but he ran into some troubles, had a criminal accountant that ran off with his money, and he wound up selling his shares of Illuminati Online to his brother so he could save SJ Games.

His brother and whatever other partners were still around, wound up selling to Prism.net soon after, which is when they went from being Illuminati Online to just IOCOM. Steve wouldn't let them keep the 'Illuminati' name, that trademark was his.

I had a lot of fun working with those guys back then.

Fnord.