Kesmai is founded by Kelton Flinn and John Taylor.
"In November 1981, John saw an ad for CompuServe, namely a MegaWars ad ('If you had written this, you'd be making $30,000 a month in royalties!' I think the ad said. Bill [Louden] was actually trolling for new games !) That kinda got our interest, so we sent a copy of the Island of Kesmai manual to Bill Louden and also to The Source. Even though the game already ran on the Prime computers that The Source used, they never responded intelligibly. Louden, on the other hand, was interested. We tried to bring the original UNIX version of Island of Kesmai up on CompuServe's DEC 20s, and chewed up $100,000 of CPU time (at the-then commercial rate) in three days. We got it working, but as Bill said, the lights dimmed in Columbus when it was running. So we headed back to Charlottesville to retrench. The first step was porting the old Z-80 code, that became Dungeons of Kesmai , which was cut back to single-player (probably the only time in history a multiplayer game was made into a single-player game!)."
” Kelton Flinn
Teletel is created.
"Minitel was the outgrowth of a French government telecom project in the early 1980s called the 'Teletel' network. This went live in 1982. It wasn't until early 1984 that the Minitel service ”'phone- top boxes' in many French telephone customers' homes , etc. ”went live."
