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Wildcat was unique because it still required you to interact with the BBS. With majorbbs the bbs would be relegated to an internet provider and their bbs would disappear.

Wildcat was like aol for bbs but it immediately brought users to a web browser so they could get internet connectivity while still getting a pop up of the BBs’ services.

What you are missing is that “full isp’s” did not exist until about 1996, 1997. And even then AOL and secondarily Compuserve where the go to providers. Wildcat absolutely challenged that status quo in an independent manner



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