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I've just noticed a couple of people have names form 1998, im just wondering when did the site realy come to be?
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I don't know.. but i just finished reading Crystal City, and in the acknowleadgments it said that the Papa Moose in the story was named for the Papa Moose in the forum.. i always thought it was the other way around... that is so cool
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I remember first hearing about hatrack and AOL together. Others will know for sure but I estimate that hatrack has been around since the mid-90's. That makes it nearly 10 years old!
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TomD or Papa Moose can answer this better than anyone, if they notice this thread.
There are some members who's "registered" date just says "a long time ago" and my understanding is that they were together as Hatrack on a separate, previous board, and then when this site was created, their screennames and user accounts were pulled over here. Then everyone with a date is AFTER that time.
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Even though I have posted as a member only recently, I used to read the Forum when it was AOL. It was horrible! You not only had to open each thread individually, but then had to open up each post individually as well. However, I believe the membership and topics were a lot less gaurded and more diverse in viewpoint and temperment than they are now.
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IIRC, the AOL forum began sometime in early 1992. I seriously considered joining AOL to participate. However, I was already a member of two other services (GEnie and Prodigy, for anyone who remembers either) and really didn't need another.
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Many of the characters in Alvin Journeyman were actual participants in the Hatrack River Town Meeting on AOL. I'm not sure exactly what years that was, but it was a pretty cool period.
OSC was able to post his manuscripts as he was writing them, a couple of chapters at a time (Word Perfect format if I remember right) I know I read Alvin Journeyman, the entire Homecoming series, and I don't remember what else.
OSC was a very active participant (so long as someone brought snickerdoodles).
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I don't remember all the dates, I'll try to have Scott help me remember. But I know the AOL version of Hatrack River Town Meeting started in the basement of our old townhouse -- which we moved out of in 1991 -- so I believe it was actually before 1990. We were actually one of the first groups to have a presence on AOL when it was a start-up. We were cool to them then -- but they got too big and we stayed too small so we were "dismissed." That's when we took Hatrack to the web.
But even before the AOL rendition, we had a little group on Prodigy as I remember. No clue how long that one went on. My memory isn't that good! But we'll try to piece it together when next I see my husband (who is in London at the moment, so it will be a few days Posts: 780 | Registered: Jul 1999
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quote:I first participated in BML some time in late 1998
Me too, only it was early to mid-1998. I think I'd just left grad school in Madison, WI at the time. I remember when Annie was Morgan Majors, and Papa was still Uncle Moose.
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quote:Originally posted by kacard: But even before the AOL rendition, we had a little group on Prodigy as I remember. No clue how long that one went on.
Pretty sure it was a year or two. And it wasn't called Hatrack, neh?
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Back in the BML days I wrote a program that made reading and posting to the forum bearable. I called it AWFuL - A Web Forum Looker. There may be a few people around still who remember that old thing.
I will be forever grateful to Kathy Kidd and Scott Card for making me feel welcome when I first joined AOL oh so very long ago. I will see if I can dig up some really old stuff later this evening.
John Hansen
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