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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:41 AM
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There Was CompuServe and America Online (AOL). Wasn't There Another Very Early Online Service?
or am I just getting old?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:43 AM
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1. Shortly afterwards, there was Prodigy, but it sucked all along.
They put more money into marketing than into product development and I still don't understand why anyone used it in the first place.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:44 AM
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2. THAT'S IT!!!!!!
Thank you!!!! I owe you a heart next month.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:46 AM
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3. I've got a version 1 AOL floppy.
Compuserve had usernames that were a string of numbers. It wasn't really useful for much other than e-mail as far as a "service" is concerned.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:50 AM
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4. Hang Onto It
In a few years, take that floppy to the Antiques Roadshow and see how much it's worth.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 10:53 AM
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5. I've thought about selling it on eBay. I've gotten some good prices for cool disks.
The Jimmy Buffet one nabbed over $10, but I would of course set a much higher starting price for this disk.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 02:01 PM
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8. I used it, but only predominantly for its real-time stock ticker
and quote grabber. Ah, memories.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 02:57 PM
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10. Funny. I thought that about AOL and Compuserve.
:shrug:
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 09:07 AM
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22. Yeah, they sucked too, just not as badly.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 03:30 PM
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11. I think they had gone belly-up by the mid 90s
I first got online in 1992 or 1993 or so and used Prodigy & AOL (I still have my four letter AOL email ID...)

However, I think a year or so later, Prodigy started charging for each email, so nobody used them when you could use AOL or Compuserve email for free. And, that was the end of Prodigy.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:14 PM
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16. I got it in early 1995. I had it for about a year, until I moved and got internet access
through the phone company.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 03:49 PM
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12. Was prodigy the one that Sears hawked?
I seem to remember Sears trying to get it on the ground floor only to have it crap out on them.
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lunamagica Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:57 PM
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20. I loved CompuServe. It had great forums
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 11:15 AM
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6. The Source was one of the original
Delphi was another.
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 01:51 PM
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7. Before the internet...
from the early 80s, there was Q-LINK for Commodore/Amiga owners. US and Canada only. Cost was 8 cents a minute.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 02:50 PM
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9. The Well?
Whole Earth 'lectonic something or other?

Stewart Brand's baby?
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 04:57 PM
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14. Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
And then there was FidoNet...
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 04:34 PM
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13. Wow, that brings back memories.
And I used to have Web TV. Somewhere out there, I have a website under construction . . . :rofl:
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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 05:22 PM
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15. And let us not forget GEnie.
Never used it, but knew some people that did
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:23 PM
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17. I used GEnie. Always liked it better than Compuserve. No idea why. nt
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:31 PM
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19. Limbaugh used to pimp for compuserve-thus, I never went near it.
:puke:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:27 PM
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18. And Apple's e-World. Which was an utter failure.
Redstone
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 02:54 AM
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21. and DELPHI which was my first - on my Apple IIc. nt
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