<s>
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
,	O
often	O
misspelled	O
Plovernet	O
,	O
was	O
a	O
popular	O
bulletin	B-Application
board	I-Application
system	I-Application
in	O
the	O
early	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
popular	O
bulletin	B-Application
board	I-Application
system	I-Application
attracted	O
a	O
large	O
group	O
of	O
hackers	O
,	O
telephone	O
phreaks	O
,	O
engineers	O
,	O
computer	B-Application
programmers	I-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
technophiles	O
,	O
at	O
one	O
point	O
reaching	O
over	O
600	O
users	O
until	O
LDX	O
,	O
a	O
long	O
distance	O
phone	O
company	O
,	O
began	O
blocking	O
all	O
calls	O
to	O
its	O
number	O
(	O
516-935-2481	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
came	O
from	O
a	O
conversation	O
between	O
Quasi	O
Moto	O
,	O
and	O
Greg	O
Schaefer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Past	O
sysop	O
of	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
included	O
Eric	O
Corley	O
,	O
under	O
the	O
pseudonym	O
Emmanuel	O
Goldstein	O
,	O
and	O
Lex	O
Luthor	O
,	O
the	O
founder	O
of	O
the	O
notorious	O
hacker	O
group	O
Legion	O
of	O
Doom	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Quasi-Moto	O
personally	O
recounted	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
,	O
</s>
<s>
Lex	O
Luthor	O
,	O
under	O
the	O
age	O
of	O
18	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
,	O
was	O
a	O
COSMOS	O
(	O
Central	O
System	O
for	O
Mainframe	O
Operations	O
)	O
expert	O
,	O
when	O
he	O
operated	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Starting	O
around	O
May	O
1984	O
he	O
began	O
using	O
is	O
position	O
on	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
to	O
contact	O
people	O
he	O
had	O
seen	O
on	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
and	O
people	O
he	O
knew	O
personally	O
who	O
possessed	O
the	O
kind	O
of	O
superior	O
knowledge	O
that	O
the	O
group	O
he	O
envisioned	O
should	O
have	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Board	O
initially	O
ran	O
on	O
three	O
Apple	B-Device
disk	I-Device
drives	I-Device
with	O
143	O
K	O
byte	O
capacity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
early	O
1985	O
Plover-NET	B-Protocol
officially	O
closed	O
permanently	O
after	O
Quasi-Moto	O
moved	O
back	O
to	O
Florida	O
and	O
was	O
unable	O
to	O
gain	O
traction	O
in	O
re-establishing	O
the	O
bulletin	O
board	O
when	O
he	O
put	O
it	O
back	O
up	O
after	O
moving	O
.	O
</s>
