Might want to check out prodigy, and compuserve, they were doing interesting things around that time.

The first servers I never used were novell 386 file servers in 1988 or so named fred and ethel. I very quickly learned that anything I have to type a million times better be easy to type, so all my machines are now named io and ip and et and vm and the like.

erm, I kinda dissagree.

    The thing that evolved into a chicken was born by some method other than egg, but it was born with the
mutation that made it produce eggs, so in fact, the non-egg-producing chicken came first, then by some
non-egg means came the mutated egg-producing chicken, then came the first egg.
      By their own argument, their argument doesn't make sens.