Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv,
Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone
so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young,
I remember seeing disks and pamphlets for these services in the box when
upgrading modems. They had serious brand recognition. By the time the
Internet was becoming available to the public, I remember being more
interested in getting a Compuserv account lol. After getting our first
Internet account in 1994, I was confused because I didn’t know where the
“file areas”, “message areas” and “chat” were after being so used to BBS
menus. Eventually I learned about FTP, USENET, and IRC. We even had a
“yellow pages” paper book where you could look up topic specific FTP,
USENET, and Gopher sites.
Just a heads up in case you aren't familiar, there is a project out there
where someone was pulling data from Prodigy cache directories (from
installed software that was used, on old computers.) They were working to
re-create Prodigy.
Would be cool if someone re-created the others as well.
- Ethan O'Toole
