Do you remember your first online service …..and screen name?

My dad had compuserve in the mid 80s , it was all text based but I did read forums and stuff. I don’t think I had a screen name, and used his account, and it was expensive if I recall, he’d get mad if was on too long

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vingtor44 · 61-69, M

In high school, two three digit numbers separated by a comma, believe the first represented the school's account and the second myself as a particular student. Logged you in on an ASR-33 Teletype over a 110 baud acoustically coupled modem to a GE Mark 1 Time Sharing system consisting of a Datanet-30 front end handling all command line interactions and a GE-235 back end to actually run programs. Basic or Algol. Circa 1967.