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Those were the days of BBS's, bulletin board systems, where you would dial in to another computer with your blazing fast 2400 baud modem in order to post messages, download software and play text-based games online. It was also the time when AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, GEnie and Delphi were battling it out to see who would enter the new media era with the most subscribers.
While I had dabbled with all the online services, I spent the most time on AOL. I was probably one of the first 250,000 subscribers on the site and still have a 2.0 installation disk.
I had the idea for the software review magazine and the means to do layout and design with my desktop publishing skills. While I didn't have experience writing reviews, I decided I had better give it a try! And so I wrote a handful of reviews, designed a simple layout and thus was born The Dallas/Fort Worth Software Review. It wasn't much, only eight pages. But it was MINE!
In the Spring of 1994, I printed up 1000 copies of the newsletter and recruited my friend David Lester to help me distribute them throughout the metroplex. He gladly took up the task of delivering stacks of the newsletter to various computer stores in the Dallas area. Thanks Davy!
I did receive several emails from people who picked up the newsletter and I began preparing for a second edition. It was then that the concept took a digital turn.
to be continued...
It's Del.icio.us!
Furl It!
