From the media

Anish, 23, and his Polish friend, the 21-year old Bartosz Drucis, stayed up from 11.30 at night to 3.00 in the morning playing chess. However, when Bartosz played a checkmate, Anish, however much he wanted to, could not physically throw him off the chair since the former was at his place in Peddar Road and Anish at his office-cum-residence at Powai. And this game was played on Live Wire! BBS, a public access bulletin board and FindoNet node Anish and his brother Suchit Nanda run.

Live Wire! BBS, which claims 150 subscribers (including Madhupati Singhania, industrialist and Mansoor Khan, film maker) and another 500 limited access users, teed off in January, 1992. Suchit, a 25 year old electrical engineer of the Red Alert vaccine fame, and Anish's Online Services turned in with about Rs 2.5 lakh in 1993-94. Live Wire! BBS provides facilities such as a file area (shareware, public domain/freeware programs - which can be downloaded as per needs of the user), connectivity to FidoNet and its NetMail and EchoMail services (FidoNet has more than 25,000 nodes in over 35 countries spread across six zones). Through FidoNet, this BBS also has E-mail gateways to systems such as Internet, CompuServe, AT&T and MCI - which in turn provide connectivity to about 15 million users. Live Wire! also provides a forum for conferences wherein users can participate on discussions on topics like DOS, HAM Radio, sound entertainment, graphics - all by going to conference on the BBS and pressing the relevant key.