A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:
I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then I have been occasionally posting the content here.
Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.
A specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”
This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.
This post includes the contents of MORTHOVE.DOC which is dated September 17th, 1985. This is another e-mail, a love letter of sorts, from Rod to Connie. There have been a number of e-mails and chats between those two included in previous posts. As far as I can tell, they met via Delphi. Yes, meeting online goes all the way back to 1985 and earlier. Of course the entire Close Encounters SIG is a testament to that.
See the previous post here.
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#2 17-SEP-1985 14:22:09 MAIL
From: BOS1A::RODM
To: CABUYS,RODM
Subj: I made up the word!
My Beloved Connie,
If you recall that several times I have mentioned that I needed a word that
meant more than 'love' because when I say 'I love you' it seems to be
inadequate.
Then I found the song 'You Are The One' which refered to the same problem,
well since I have been unable to find such a word I have invented one and here
it is:
Morthove - 1. A term or unit of measure of passion that is 1000 times that of
the word 'love'.
2. A state or level of passion that is: irreversable, inalterable,
indescribable and has a relative magnatude of 1000 times Love.
(Root words: MOre THan lOVE)
I am so morthove with you?
I Morthove You!
Morthove,
Rod
P.S. Post if you wish!
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