Dan upon finishing his MBA at Harvard, become President and subsequently CEO when Wes moved on to form Global Villages.

Features included E-mail (July 1992), FTP, Telnet, Usenet, text-based Web access (November 1992), MUDs, Finger, and Gopher.

"But we didn't have a lot of financing to fuel our growth..."[6] In 1993, Delphi was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Under Baratz, Delphi acquired space in Cross Point, an office complex in Lowell, Massachusetts constructed for Wang Laboratories, and built a large state-of-the-art server farm.

"[6] In 1996, Delphi launched a free, ad-supported managed-content website with associated message boards and chat rooms, under the management of a team led by Dan Bruns and which included Bill Louden, who had headed GEnie during its heyday.

After a year as a managed content site, Delphi reinvented itself as a community-driven service that allowed anyone to create an online community.

[2] In 2001, Rob Brazell purchased Delphi Forums, merged it with eHow and Idea Exchange, and formed Blue Frogg Enterprises.

[2] In 2008, online community developer Mzinga acquired Littleton-based Prospero Technologies LLC, which was then owned by Bruce Buckland, chairman and CEO of Mallory Ventures.

[citation needed] In March 2009, a Forrester Research analyst reported on Twitter that Mzinga was having financial difficulties after it had completed a second round of layoffs.

[2] In January 2012, Delphi Forums resigned from the Better Business Bureau in protest of their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).