folded the business into first the Dialcom Group along with the rest of the BT Prestel companies and Telecom Gold and subsequently BT Managed Network Services. In 1991 along with all its online services, BT closed the service deciding to focus on providing network services and transferred the subscriber base to Compuserve which subsequently became AOL in the UK. The Micronet service closed 31 October 1991. It had 10,000 members at closure and was "easily the largest online service in the UK specialising in microcomputing". Despite this apparent success, this was less than 10% of the number of users they were predicting having shortly after launch. Micronet/Telemap Management: Richard Hease - chairman and co-founder 1982-1983 Bob Denton - co-founder 1982-1983 Tim Schoonmaker - Managing Director 1983-1986 Ian Rock - Publisher (formerly Marketing Manager) 1983-1986 (Author of 'How To Run The Country Manual') Tom Baird - BT liaison John Tomany - Managing Director 1987-1990 Michael Weatherseed - General Manager 1990-1991 Micronet editors: David Babsky, founding editor Simon D'Arcy, Editor then Publisher Sid Smith (author of "Something Like A House", Whitbread award-winning novel), news editor, then editor. Francis Jago (Now CEO of Fingal, a creative communications agency in London) Paul Needs, Amstrad & PC staff writer, then editor then managing editor computer and leisure service. Paul is now a professional entertainer and recording artist. Ian Burley, Micronet's final editor (Now CEO of The Write Technology Ltd, an Internet online publishing business behind Digital Photography Now) Barbara Conway (died 1991), part-time media editor in the early years of Micronet 800 Other editorial staff Ken Young - online journo and roving reporter Adam Denning - original Technical Editor David Rosenbaum - News Editor and editor of Musicnet Chris Bourne - Sunday Xtra editor Paul Vigay - Acorn Editor Chris Lewis - Sinclair Editor Ian Burley - Acorn Editor, then News Editor. Rupert Goodwins - editorial assistant Afshin Rattansi - music and arts journalist David Farmbrough - music journalist Production team: Robin Wilkinson - publisher in Peterborough, testing, sales and downloading; previously EMAP's Telemap publisher Val Burgess - previously of Prestel, Micronet 800 telesoftware database manager Mike Brown - previously of CET, Technical Director Richard Tyner- Software sales and acquisition, John Mason - software testing and pricing John Prout - technical help desk Denise Shemuel - editorial database manager, London Colin Morgan Roger "Woj" Cracknell Gary Richard Smith Robert O'Donnell Patrick Reilly Daemonn Brody Denise