Why did the TeleJoke RT on GEnie disappear?
Nobody will say quite for sure. When Brad Templeton decided he didn’t have the time to do it any more, GEnie decided not to pass it on to anybody else. It wasn’t due to lack of popularity of the Round Table, however. There is some question that General Electric might have been wary of carrying the no-holds-barred uncensored joke sections of the RT. • Q: Did rec.humor.funny have anything to do with how ClariNet was started? A: Yes indeed. Read the story of RHF and ClariNet here.