TAKE IT TO THE BOARDS

When I started allgames.com the best place to get into a good debate about the merits of a particular game/developer/publisher was on Usenet. According to Wikipedia, “Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980.” (continued)