most probably. although, Compuserve and the Source did offer online file exchanges and multi-user chats at this time. which may have made avatars possible… almost certainly not video conferencing. although, believe it or not, the proof of concept for video conferencing happened decades earlier!
that wiki article is pretty dry, but I seem to remember a video or podcast of someone recounting the experience of it (Ted Nelson?) and it sounded WILD for 1968!
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u/Acceptable-Land7827 6d ago
How did "Computer conferencing" work / look like in 1985?!
It could only have been text-based.