: Yeah I figured that private services like AOL didn't count as
: "sites".
Agreed. I only made reference to it as Bungie were providing details about Marathon on AOL such as the screenshot collage (technically a Marathon Ad) in those early days which provided sufficient information to start the 1st Marathon fan web page in October 1994.
: Were you on AOL back then Hamish? I remember having the impression, as
: someone who started out on AOL a few years prior before having joined the
: "real internet", that you were part of the community out there
: on the "real internet", and initially unfamiliar to me from
: within that insular little AOL community.
Living outside the US I was not eligible to join AOL. At least that was my impression. Being in university back in '94 gave me fast free access to the "real internet" so those early fan web sites and usenet were my main sources of Marathon news.
Cheers
Hamish