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@p @Humpleupagus @ins0mniak Pony Ma’s main business outside his BBS was pager notification software. It would push stock notices to your pager in 1999-2000.

(His sister worked for the telecom which is why he could swing getting like 10 lines run to his house.)

There was this Pirates of Silicon Valley like moment that happened one day (Bill! The Revolution is starting without us!) where they saw suddenly everyone was getting computers.

That’s when he burned the pager biz to start QQ.