That brings back memories. I still have my MCI Mail software in a box in storage, and I still have the working IBM PC-XT and Compaq Portable computers it was installed upon. They still work. I saved back some tubes of RAM for them, leftover from when I was selling it wholesale to retailers.
After using mainframes and/or their networks since the 1960s, the transition to microcomputers in the late 1970s and The Source and Compuserve BBS networks in 1979 came as a natural transition. The advent of USENET, MCI Mail, BBS, and FidoNet, and Gopher were all to frequent new hurdles. It actually felt like a welcome relief from constant upset when the Internet kept the playground at least a little more consistent and familiar from year to year. We went from piggybacking e-mail through a Disney BBS gateway onto the Internet to using Mosaic and then Netscape Navigator. The Source, MCI Mail, Compuserve, Netscape, and many e-mail servers went by the wayside. USENET has also been diminished.
FidoNet, and Gopher! ROTFLMAO!!!!
slash.net too?! /s