Hachja, BTX - and its users. The candy-loving space cadets of the 80s

Of course, people like us were active in mailbox networks (yeah yeah, those animal nets, first Fido, soon then Maus) and of course we didn't have any fancy pictures, no chats (ok, the Fidos had something like that, but they were hardly better than the BTX folks), no commerce and therefore it was all better.

Or so.

At heise online news there's the original article.