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The initial price for connection, at both 300 bits per second and the then-high-speed 1,200 bits per second, was $5вЂ“6 per hour during 'non-prime-time' hours (evenings and weekends) and $36 an hour (to discourage daytime use) otherwise, later adjusted to $6 per hour and $18 per hour, respectively.

GEnie log-in screen from February 1993, as it would have appeared on an Apple IIe (Later, however, GE did consent to make the service available through the SprintNet time-sharing network, which had its own dial-up points of presence an Internet-to-SprintNet gateway operated by Merit Network also made the text-based parts of the service available through telnet.) GEIS executives steadfastly refused to view the service as anything but 'fill in' load and would not expand the network by a single phone line, let alone expand mainframe capacity, to accommodate GEnie's growing user base. Although it became very popular and a national force in the on-line marketplace, GEnie was not allowed to grow. This orientation was part of GEnie's downfall. GEIS served a diverse set of large-scale, international, commercial network-based custom application needs, including banking, electronic data interchange and e-mail services to companies worldwide, but was able to run GEnie on their many GE Mark III time-sharing mainframe computers that otherwise would have been underutilized after normal U.S.

The service was run by General Electric Information Services (GEIS, now GXS) based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Louden purchased DECWAR source code and had MegaWars developed, one of the earliest multi-player online games (or MMOG), in 1985. Louden was originally CompuServe's product manager for Computing, Community (forums), Games, eCommerce, and email product lines. GEnie was founded by Bill Louden on Octo and was launched as an ASCII text-based service by GE's Information Services division in October 1985, and received attention as the first serious commercial competition to CompuServe.

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