Delph, 1996

[Steven Weyhrich]

I'm looking for information, any educated guesses as to the number of Apple II users who participated in the Apple II group on Delphi, either before or after Syndicomm opened its A2 and A2Pro groups in 1996. Was it 50? 100? 500? 1000? It was suggested to me that "there couldn't have been very many by then." Can anyone help me prove that statement wrong?

As always, thanks for the collective brains in this group.

[Michael Black]

I havnen't a clue. I sure couldn't afford those online services, the
price was relatively high, and then often it was either long distance or
requiring some other service to connect you.

1996 was pretty late. I didn't get internet access till then, and I felt
at the time like I'd gotten here late. The first wave of local ISPs had
come and mostly bought up by larger ISPs and Big ISPs had already
launched. It was still early, in the sense that there were still plenty
of people who weren't online, but that's for the general population.

The people using Delphi (or Genie) were likely the ones to jump to
the internet as early as possible, and since they were already paying the
money, paying for internet access would have been less of an issue, just
switch from the pay service to an ISP.

The expense limited how many ever used such services, and then once the
internet became accessible (remember, some of the early internet access
was via "freenets", internet access for all, either freeor minimal cost)
that would have been more tempting.

Michael

[Geo3]

On Friday, May 24, 2013 6:14:34 PM UTC-4, Steven Weyhrich wrote:
> I'm looking for information, any educated guesses as to the number of Apple II users who participated in the Apple II group on Delphi, either before or after Syndicomm opened its A2 and A2Pro groups in 1996. Was it 50? 100? 500? 1000? It was suggested to me that "there couldn't have been very many by then." Can anyone help me prove that statement wrong?
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> As always, thanks for the collective brains in this group.

I do not have clue either. But going on there and going back to one of the Apple II groups on there all the way back with to 96. But it was formed very late in the year like around 9/00/96 or 10/00/96. So in the beginning of that in 1996 I would say there were less then 50. Now there was more Apple II group on there. From what I can recall when I joined it there was not a lot of users under 50 I would say.