macaholicPremium
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY | Sort of sad... To see all this crazy nasty stuff... I remember when the choice to surf the internet was comp-u-serv ad text based information service for business users. It was pretty expensive as well...
Then along came AOL which originally ran on the geo OS (I think thats the platform) cause windows was a wee bit of a version 1.0 and kind of a gross little baby.
With windows 3.0 a version of AOL was released that had something called a "TCP Stack". This stack thingee gave people the ability to use a nifty new program call Mosaic and then later a cool program called Netscape...
No matter how bad AOL is today as a brand.. the original company is what popularized the internet as we know it.. chat rooms, im messaging, email was released onto the general public as far as am concerned by AOL.
Very sad. They could not keep up with the firestorm they started. What was another service at the time? Prodigy? I never used it.
Will
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 NwkEWRSpare Me the Marxist B.S.Premium
join:2002-04-10
Newark, NJ | said by macaholic:To see all this crazy nasty stuff... I remember when the choice to surf the internet was comp-u-serv ad text based information service for business users. It was pretty expensive as well... Then along came AOL which originally ran on the geo OS (I think thats the platform) cause windows was a wee bit of a version 1.0 and kind of a gross little baby. With windows 3.0 a version of AOL was released that had something called a "TCP Stack". This stack thingee gave people the ability to use a nifty new program call Mosaic and then later a cool program called Netscape... No matter how bad AOL is today as a brand.. the original company is what popularized the internet as we know it.. chat rooms, im messaging, email was released onto the general public as far as am concerned by AOL. Very sad. They could not keep up with the firestorm they started. What was another service at the time? Prodigy? I never used it. Will Those were the days indeed, PC-Link, Q-Link, Prodigy (I still have it, although the Classic was vanished about a decade ago) shoot, I refuse to give up my @prodigy.net addy, I was originally PXJW81A on Classic and retain my eMails to this day. Hurray for Commodore!!! - Dang I'm getting old!!!
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DaveO
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Easley, SC | reply to macaholic
AOL didn't popularize the Internet as we know it. In fact they did everything they could hold back their customers' use of general Internet services such as e-mail and web browsing because they wanted everyone to use AOL's proprietary content and services.
It was actually the smaller local dial-up ISPs such as Earthlink that did the most to popularize Internet use by the general public. |
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macaholicPremium
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY | anybody who used aol could use mosaic or netscape to surf. And chat rooms? Instant messaging? email. Adult talking ;-0 Those "proprietory" services at the time.. became common place years later. Earthlink came much much later ....
where were you in 1989?
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BBS's made online collaboration and content sharing happen.
Prodigy improved on those concepts with a portal approach which was used heavily in schools.
AOL took both concepts and created a revolution that, for many years, people took as "the Internet".
But, their time has long since past, because they didn't advance beyond that concept. They're more than happy to stay with what they created which unfortunately is to a lot of users' detriment. |
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I was on the Cleveland Freenet back then (1989). Back in the summer of '89 the Cleveland Freenet was upgraded to the Freenet II software and introduced the Cleveland Freenet community to the joys of Internet email. My addy was af976@cleveland.freenet.edu, a couple of years before I knew what the Internet was. |
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BJMC01B here 
And lets not forget I think that Prodigy was the first one to do message boards. I remember how cool it was that network executives from CBS and other channels would actually answer your questions, before they all got websites |
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