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Same ancient ADISC threae also had some more info on Tommy being a piecd of shit and other earlt ABDLs.
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I heard about things like that, that Tommy would threaten to sue other ABs cause he thought he owned adult baby or something. Tommy… he was and always was a creep to me. He kept the rosters list up and that has ruined lives. He thought people should pay to see stuff about adult babies. Tommy was a greedy bastard.
I had a friend of mine try to get a job and lost out because his name was still on the roster when they did a background check and found his name listed as a babysitter. I have heard also that Tommy was a bitter, unhappy man.
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You are totally right about Gene being the pioneer what was DPF as Tommy used Gene's contact list. Gotta remember back when DPF started it was called "Diaper Pail Fraternity" - meaning it started primarily for men, particularly gay men as that was what the original list Gene had was made of.
Later when more straight men and women began to request membership to DPF Tommy eventually changed it to "Diaper Pail Friends"
As there was no internet and had to rely on what was in print. DPF, at the time, was a God send for many of us. We thought we were alone, only to find DPF did we find we were not.
When there was a move to the internet, Tommy was not internet savy and had to rely on others to set up DPF for him. For awhile it was the best that ab/dl had. The links were good, the chat was not that bad, otherwise had to rely on IRC for communicating with other ab/dl. So anything was better than nothing back when.
As far as the "Store" Tommy had it was not the best. Many discovered where his sources of supplies came from - Babykins, VIP, Langley to name a few and you could get them at a better price. When there weren't a lot of videos out there, Tommy produced some or got people to do some for him. He filled a "niche" that wasn't available back then.
Tommy and his significant other - Marky is interested in selling, but so far nothing has been done to accomplish it as Tommy is in no condition to do anymore business so is dependent on Marky.
As far as historically who were significant to ab/dl beside Gene, well that's another story. But there were names like: Cathy Slavic "Infantae Press" out of Seattle, Washington; Carolyn of "Carolyn's Kids" out of Mass; Linda Brownleigh or "Linda Latex" out of North Carolina; Florence from The South SF Bay area in California, "Tales from the Crib" just to name a few. .
Seeming confirmation that Tommy effectively outted people by, at least, never removing anyone from the roster. Really interesting is the second post that drops some early names and info.
Sorry for the tangent here. Wasnt actually expecting to find info this easily. Curious if others can kick up some rocks on early history. Like who actually coined ABDL.