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On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
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Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL.
Yep but if your company wasn't paying the bill it was way too
expensive for most mortals and they didn't have much in the way of
entertainment services. I had Prodigy pretty much from day 1 (IBM
subsidized it for us) They had great content for the day.
I got AOL very early on because my wife's family were on it. I think
they had an IBEW deal. I really didn't use it myself but my wife used
Email a lot to talk to the folks up north. I did start using this as
my Email when I left IBM in 96. It was easy for people since my IBM
address was gfretwel@atlvmic1 on the VM system
When Prodigy dropped the "Classic" service, I dropped them.
I still keep this AOL account but I think it will go away soon, when I
get my own domain. That way I will own my Email address. It will take
a while to get the word out tho, since I have had this as my primary
address for so long.


Compuserve wasn't that bad if you watched yourself. I was a subscriber from
1982 - 2000. The latter 6 years were free since I was a sysop on one of
their more popular forums.

--Mike

On Dec 11, 11:18*pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?

The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.

The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL

Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.

Heh - reminds me of a certain computer company executive who told me
that email would never become a mass market feature for the home
computer because the routing systems would be too complex, too
expensive to build and besides, telephones were easier.

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:30:27 -0800, "Mike" wrote:

Do people still pay for AOL?

--Mike


Only idiots who don't know any better.

wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL.
Yep but if your company wasn't paying the bill it was way too
expensive for most mortals and they didn't have much in the way of
entertainment services. I had Prodigy pretty much from day 1 (IBM
subsidized it for us) They had great content for the day.
I got AOL very early on because my wife's family were on it. I think
they had an IBEW deal. I really didn't use it myself but my wife used
Email a lot to talk to the folks up north. I did start using this as
my Email when I left IBM in 96. It was easy for people since my IBM
address was gfretwel@atlvmic1 on the VM system
When Prodigy dropped the "Classic" service, I dropped them.
I still keep this AOL account but I think it will go away soon, when I
get my own domain. That way I will own my Email address. It will take
a while to get the word out tho, since I have had this as my primary
address for so long.


You won't be owning your e-mail address, you will be renting it from ICANN.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18*pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?

The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.

The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

You and Harry make a great pair.

Pick a religion and go for it.
--
John

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL
Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.

Heh - reminds me of a certain computer company executive who told me
that email would never become a mass market feature for the home
computer because the routing systems would be too complex, too
expensive to build and besides, telephones were easier.

Was this the profit himself, Edson?

John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.
The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

You and Harry make a great pair.

Pick a religion and go for it.


You are more than a bit over the edge this morning, Herring.
Are you now accusing me of being anti-Semitic? I have nothing against
Christianity, by the way, but I have no respect for assholes like you
who claim to be Christians but whose behavior says otherwise.

HK wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.
The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

You and Harry make a great pair.
Pick a religion and go for it.


You are more than a bit over the edge this morning, Herring.
Are you now accusing me of being anti-Semitic? I have nothing against
Christianity, by the way, but I have no respect for assholes like you
who claim to be Christians but whose behavior says otherwise.


And your behavior is condoned by what religion? WAFA

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:12:21 -0500, BAR wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL
Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.

Heh - reminds me of a certain computer company executive who told me
that email would never become a mass market feature for the home
computer because the routing systems would be too complex, too
expensive to build and besides, telephones were easier.

Was this the profit himself, Edson?

Actually no - although it wouldn't have surprised me if he didn't feel
the same way.

It was Ken Olsen.