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ah, just before the dawn of the Internet. “You will be able to vote for your favorite game online, via the Prodigy services network” It's too easy to forget th
by pmarreck 5y ago
ah, just before the dawn of the Internet. “You will be able to vote for your favorite game online, via the Prodigy services network”
It's too easy to forget that just before 1995 and using PPP and a modem to connect to the formerly-only-academic-and-military Internet (and the premiere of web browsers), there was a patchwork of self-hosted dialup providers providing a network-connected GUI of sorts like AOL and Prodigy
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- jandrese 5y agoOnly $1 an hour for access! Actually I think Prodigy was more expensive. AOL made money hand over fist during that brief window before Web Browsers became mainstream. As soon as ISPs starting showing up that were $10 or $15 for an entire month of Internet all of those dial up services were doomed. They had grown way too fat on per-hour billing and couldn't hope to compete.
- arminiusreturns 5y agoThen you had to have a collection of local isp numbers (and for the cracker scene user/pass lists) so you could connect while away from home. I just remembered how happy I was when I had my palm pilot 14k attachment and could get internet in class because often live POTS were available in many more rooms than these days.