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GEnie

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GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service created by a General Electric business, GEIS (now GXS), that ran from 1985 through the end of 1999. [1]

119 relations: Air Warrior, Amiga, Anime, AOL, Apple II, ASCII, Babylon 5, Beth Meacham, Bill Warren (film historian and critic), Bit rate, Boing Boing, Brad Templeton, Bulletin board system, Castle Quest, Chat room, Citizens band radio, Comic book, CompuServe, Cory Doctorow, CyberStrike, Dafydd ab Hugh, Damon Knight, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Daniel Pinkwater, Dean Wesley Smith, Debra Doyle, Decwar, Delphi (online service), Designing Virtual Worlds, Dragon's Gate, DragonRealms, Electronic data interchange, Elfquest, Elonka Dunin, Email, Forth (programming language), Galaxy II, Gardner Dozois, GemStone IV, General Electric, George R. R. Martin, Graphical user interface, GXS Inc., Harry Turtledove, Horror Writers Association, IDT Corporation, International Game Developers Association, Internet service provider, J. Michael Straczynski, J. Neil Schulman, ..., Jane Yolen, Jerry Pournelle, Jim Dunnigan, Joe Haldeman, John Barnes (author), Josepha Sherman, Judith Tarr, Jurassic Park (film), K. W. Jeter, Katharine Kerr, Keith DeCandido, Kelton Flinn, Ken Grimwood, Kesmai, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Leslie What, Mailing list, Mainframe computer, Mark Jacobs (game designer), Martha Soukup, Maryland, Massively multiplayer online game, MegaWars, MegaWars III, Merit Network, Michael A. Burstein, Michael Okuda, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Michael Swanwick, MIDI, Mike Resnick, Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA, Mythic Entertainment, NBC, Neil Gaiman, News Corp, NTN Buzztime, Online chat, Online community, Online service provider, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Paul Levinson, Peter David, Peter Heck, Presidency of Bill Clinton, Prodigy (online service), Raven Oak, Robert J. Sawyer, Rockville, Maryland, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Scott Edelman, Screenwriter, Seinfeld, Simutronics, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Steven Brust, Susan Shwartz, Tappan Wright King, Telnet, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Time-sharing, Tom Clancy, Usenet, Usenet newsgroup, Wayne Knight, Wendy and Richard Pini, Wil Wheaton, World Wide Web, Year 2000 problem. Expand index (69 more) »

Air Warrior

Air Warrior was a multiplayer on-line air-combat simulator launched by Kesmai in 1988.

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Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd.

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Beth Meacham

Beth Meacham (born 1951) is an American writer and editor, best known as a longtime top editor with Tor Books.

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Bill Warren (film historian and critic)

William Bond "Bill" Warren (April 26, 1943 – October 7, 2016) was an American film historian, critic, and one of the leading authorities on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

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Bit rate

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.

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Boing Boing

Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.

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Brad Templeton

Brad Templeton (born April 20, 1960 near Toronto) is a software architect, civil rights advocate, and entrepreneur.

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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Castle Quest

Castle Quest may refer to.

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Chat room

The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.

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Citizens band radio

Citizens band radio (also known as CB radio) is, in many countries, a system of short-distance radio communications between individuals typically on a selection of 40 channels within the 27 MHz (11 m) band.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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CompuServe

CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was the first major commercial online service provider in the United States.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

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CyberStrike

CyberStrike is a futuristic 3D combat online game by Simutronics Corporation, involving team combat between customizable mechs, each of which is controlled by a different player.

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Dafydd ab Hugh

Dafydd ab Hugh (/dævɪð æb hɨʊ/, born David Friedman, on October 22, 1960) is a U.S. science fiction author.

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Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor and critic.

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Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to no more than one living writer of fantasy or science fiction.

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Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Manus Pinkwater (born November 15, 1941) is an American author of children's books and "Young Adult" fiction.

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Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith is a science fiction author, known primarily for his Star Trek novels, film novelizations, and other novels of licensed properties such as Smallville, Spider-Man, X-Men, Aliens, Roswell, Men in Black, and Quantum Leap.

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Debra Doyle

Debra Doyle (born 1952) is an American author writing in multiple related genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

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Decwar

DECWAR is a multiplayer computer game first written in 1978 at the University of Texas at Austin for the PDP-10.

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Delphi (online service)

Delphi Forums is a U.S. online service provider and since the mid 1990s has been a community internet forum site.

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Designing Virtual Worlds

Designing Virtual Worlds is a book about the practice of virtual world development by Richard Bartle.

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Dragon's Gate

Dragon's Gate was an interactive, real time, text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD.

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DragonRealms

DragonRealms is a medieval fantasy game set in the world of Elanthia.

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Electronic data interchange

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information to that which was traditionally communicated on paper.

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Elfquest

Elfquest (or ElfQuest) is a cult hit comic book property created by Wendy and Richard Pini in 1978.

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Elonka Dunin

Elonka Dunin (born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer who worked at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri from 1990–2014, and in 2015 was Senior Producer at Black Gate Games in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Forth (programming language)

Forth is an imperative stack-based computer programming language and environment originally designed by Charles "Chuck" Moore.

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Galaxy II

Galaxy II is a play-by-mail game that was published by Brett A. Tondreau.

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Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois (July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor.

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GemStone IV

GemStone IV is a multiplayer text-based online role-playing video game (often known as a MUD) produced by Simutronics.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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George R. R. Martin

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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GXS Inc.

GXS (OpenText GXS) is a subsidiary of OpenText Corporation headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States.

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Horror Writers Association

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark fantasy writers.

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IDT Corporation

IDT Corporation (originally standing for International Discount Telecommunications) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

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International Game Developers Association

International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the professional association for over 12,000 video and computer game developers worldwide.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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J. Michael Straczynski

Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms, is an American television and film screenwriter, producer and director, and comic book writer.

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J. Neil Schulman

Joseph Neil Schulman (born April 16, 1953) is an American novelist who wrote Alongside Night (published 1979) and The Rainbow Cadenza (published 1983) which both received the Prometheus Award, a libertarian science fiction award.

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Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books.

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.

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Jim Dunnigan

James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author, military-political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and wargame designer currently living in New York City.

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Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.

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John Barnes (author)

John Barnes (born 1957 in Angola, Indiana) is an American science fiction author.

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Josepha Sherman

Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist.

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Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr (born in Augusta, Maine, January 30, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author.

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.

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K. W. Jeter

Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950), known both personally and professionally as K. W. Jeter, is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters.

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Katharine Kerr

Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry.

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Keith DeCandido

Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido (born April 18, 1969 in New York City) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Andromeda, Farscape, Leverage, Spider-Man, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, and Stargate SG-1.

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Kelton Flinn

Kelton Flinn is an American computer game designer who is a major pioneer in online games.

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Ken Grimwood

Kenneth Milton Grimwood (February 27, 1944 – June 6, 2003) was an American author, sometimes known as Alan Cochran.

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Kesmai

Kesmai was a pioneering game developer and online game publisher, founded in 1981 by Kelton Flinn and John Taylor.

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Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer).

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Leslie What

Leslie What (born Leslie Nelson, 1955) is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction.

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Mailing list

A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.

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Mainframe computer

Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.

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Mark Jacobs (game designer)

Mark Jacobs is an American game designer, programmer, author and businessman, and the former GM/VP/CEO of Mythic Entertainment, Inc.

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Martha Soukup

Martha Soukup (born 20 July 1959 in Aurora, Illinois) is a science fiction author and playwright for the emerging playwrights group.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG, or more commonly, MMO) is an online game with large numbers of players, typically from hundreds to thousands, on the same server.

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MegaWars

MegaWars was a series of real-time online multiplayer space empire building games which were hosted on CompuServe in the 1980s and lasted well into the 1990s.

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MegaWars III

MegaWars III was a massively multiplayer empire building game written by Kesmai and run continuously on CompuServe between 1984 and 1999.

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Merit Network

Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan.

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Michael A. Burstein

Michael A. Burstein (born 1970) is an American writer of science fiction.

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Michael Okuda

Michael Okuda is an American graphic designer best known for his work on Star Trek.

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Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Michael Paul Kube-McDowell (born August 29, 1954), also known as Michael McDowell or Michael P. McDowell, is an American science fiction and non-fiction author.

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Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Mike Resnick

Michael Diamond Resnick (born March 5, 1942) is an American science fiction writer under the name Mike Resnick.

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Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA

Multiplayer BattleTech was a PC MMORPG BattleTech game developed by Kesmai and featured on the now defunct GEnie online gaming network.

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Mythic Entertainment

Mythic Entertainment (which has also been known as BioWare Mythic, EA Mythic, Inc. and Interworld Productions) was a video game developer in Fairfax, Virginia that was most widely recognized for developing the 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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News Corp

News Corporation (officially referred to and trading as News Corp) is an American multinational mass media company, formed as a spin-off of the former News Corporation (as founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1979) focusing on newspapers and publishing.

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NTN Buzztime

NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms.

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Online chat

Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

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Online community

An online community, also called an internet community, is a virtual community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet.

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Online service provider

An online service provider can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, an official government site, social media, a wiki, or a Usenet newsgroup.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born Patrick James Hayden January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), is an American science fiction editor, fan, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger.

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Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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Peter David

Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956) often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.

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Peter Heck

Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author.

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Presidency of Bill Clinton

The presidency of Bill Clinton began at noon EST on January 20, 1993, when Bill Clinton was inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2001.

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Prodigy (online service)

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.

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Raven Oak

Raven Oak (born December 21, 1977 in Riverside, California) is an American author, whose written works range from science fiction & fantasy to cross-genre.

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Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

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Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.

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Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman (born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998.

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Simutronics

Simutronics is an American online games company whose products include GemStone IV and DragonRealms.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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Steven Brust

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.

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Susan Shwartz

Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.

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Tappan Wright King

Tappan Wright King (born 1950) is an American editor and author in the field of fantasy fiction, best known for editing The Twilight Zone Magazine and its companion publication Night Cry in the late 1980s.

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Telnet

Telnet is a protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection.

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Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and workshop instructor.

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Time-sharing

In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking at the same time.

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Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War.

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Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations using Internet.

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Wayne Knight

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor, voice artist and comedian.

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Wendy and Richard Pini

Wendy Pini née Fletcher, (born June 4, 1951) and Richard Pini (born July 19, 1950) are the husband-and-wife team responsible for creating the well-known Elfquest series of comics, graphic novels and prose works.

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Wil Wheaton

Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor, blogger, voice actor and writer.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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Year 2000 problem

The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K, is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie

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