Boston CitiNet

Messaging services such as email and chat required registration and a monthly fee of $9.95 - an early example of the now popular freemium business model.It initially ran on a DEC micro-PDP/11 computer with over 100 dial-up phone lines coming into the basement of a former A&P store on Trapelo Road in Belmont.Sports was covered by reporters (like today's bloggers) and Richard Koch could be found in the Boston Celtics or Red Sox locker rooms and posting updates from the press box using a TRS-80 Model 100.Then as now, social interaction led the day, with free email, multi-user chat, and dozens of forums (from cat lovers to vcr help).In the period from 1985-1989, AVS and CitiNet participated in NYNEX's Info-Look and Bell Atlantic’s Information Gateway projects as well as being contracted by Pacific Bell to provide the local information services for Project Victoria, an early trial of ISDN services to the home tested in the community of Danville, CA.
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