"If you're going to mention IRC , you might mention the invention dates of CompuServe CB , GEnie's chat, and the first chat on French Minitel (which was in the dawning days of Minitel and led to some users dropping off with multi-thousand-dollar phone bills). No, I don't know these dates."
” Dr. Cat
Mark Baldwin does a GUI version of Bright's Empire for the PC.
QuantumLink launches AppleLink, soon to be AOL. Turns down Aradath and Galaxy II (by AUSI, later Mythic “ JMM) , though.
Rich Skrenta at Northwestern University (NU) releases Monster , a multiplayer adventure game written in Pascal that supported online creation.
"I wrote Monster in about three months, during NU's 'winter quarter.' I was totally obsessed with coding it. Project obsession was normal with me (really boosts the productivity :-) , but Monster Madness , as I called it then, really got out of hand. I was spending all night in the comp center, leaving at 7 a.m., skipping classes, skipping everything. (My 10,000-line VMS Pascal wonder would compile faster when no one was around, which encouraged the nocturnal work.) I went on spring break, and when I got back, I forced myself to not continue working on Monster . I was afraid I'd fail out of school if I did. I left it alone until November of that year, when I started sending it out on the Bitnet."
” Rich Skrenta (from Lauren Burka's MUDLine)
Club Caribe , a derivative of Habitat , is released on QuantumLink.
